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South Toward Home
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Author : Julia Reed
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Release Date : 2018-07-31
South Toward Home written by Julia Reed and has been published by St. Martin's Griffin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-31 with Humor categories.
In considering the pleasures and absurdities of her native culture, Julia Reed quotes another Southern writer, Willie Morris, who said, “It’s the juxtapositions that get you down here.” These juxtapositions are, for Julia, the soul of the South, and in her warmhearted and funny new book, South Toward Home, she chronicles her adventures through the highs and the lows of Southern life—taking us everywhere from dive bars and the Delta Hot Tamale Festival to an impromptu shindig on a Mississippi River sandbar and a coveted seat on a Mardi Gras float. She writes about the region’s music and food, its pesky critters and prodigious drinking habits, its inhabitants’ penchant for making their own fun—and, crucially, their gift for laughing at themselves. With her distinctive voice and knowing eye, Julia also provides her take on the South’s more embarrassing characteristics from the politics of lust and the persistence of dry counties to the “seemingly bottomless propensity for committing a whole lot of craziness in the name of the Lord.” No matter what, she writes, “My fellow Southerners have brought me the greatest joy—on the page, over the airwaves, around the dinner table, at the bar or, hell, in the checkout line.” South Toward Home, with a foreword by Jon Meacham, is Julia Reed’s valentine to the place she knows and loves best.
South Toward Home Travels In Southern Literature
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Author : Margaret Eby
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2015-09-08
South Toward Home Travels In Southern Literature written by Margaret Eby and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
"Fascinating…Eby lyrically uncovers a bit of the magic that makes a Southern writer Southern." —Josh Steele, Entertainment Weekly What is it about the South that has inspired so much of America’s greatest literature? And why do we think of the authors it influenced not just as writers, but as Southern writers? In South Toward Home, Margaret Eby goes in search of answers to these questions, visiting the stomping grounds of ten Southern authors, including William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Richard Wright, Truman Capote, Harper Lee, and Flannery O’Connor. Combining biographical detail with expert criticism, Eby delivers a rich and evocative tribute to the literary South.
South Toward Home
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Author : Alice Joyner Irby
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-04-04
South Toward Home written by Alice Joyner Irby and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-04 with categories.
Southerners love to tell stories. In these twenty-six stories, Alice Joyner Irby recalls her blessed yet turbulent life in and out of the South. Her childhood adventures begin in the 1930s on the Roanoke River in Weldon, a close-knit town in Northeastern North Carolina, where she and her brother, George, kept Granny's boarding house lively with pranks on customers and neighborhood playmates. Every decade brought unforeseen opportunities, painful disruptions, and life-altering choices-from the controversial McCarthy hearings to the heroic school-integration efforts of the 1950s; from the 1960 Greensboro sit-ins when Alice was Director of Admissions at UNCG, to her role within LBJ's Job Corps in Washington, D.C. These were exciting and formative times for the Republic. Alice witnessed all of it-and more.Alice's guiding "celebrities" come to life in South Toward Home. Unconditional love and support from her parents, siblings, and daughter enabled her journey and sustained her resilience. Alice may have been an upstart daredevil who climbed the sheer walls of success in a man's world, but this young Southern woman never entirely left behind the open-hearted, unpretentious people of Halifax County-or the black-delta banks of the timeless Roanoke River.
North Toward Home
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Author : Willie Morris
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2000-08-22
North Toward Home written by Willie Morris and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-08-22 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
With his signature style and grace, Willie Morris, arguably one of this country's finest Southern writers, presents us with an unparalleled memoir of a country in transition and a boy coming of age in a period of tumultuous cultural, social, and political change. In North Toward Home, Morris vividly recalls the South of his childhood with all of its cruelty, grace, and foibles intact. He chronicles desegregation and the rise of Lyndon Johnson in Texas in the 50s and 60s, and New York in the 1960s, where he became the controversial editor of Harper's magazine. North Toward Home is the perceptive story of the education of an observant and intelligent young man, and a gifted writer's keen observations of a country in transition. It is, as Walker Percy wrote, "a touching, deeply felt and memorable account of one man's pilgrimage."
Getting On Toward Home
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Author : Christoph Keller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-06-30
Getting On Toward Home written by Christoph Keller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-30 with categories.
A collection of twelve homilies at funerals by Christoph Keller, III, an Episcopal priest and theologian.
House Documents
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
House Documents written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with categories.
Circling Toward Home
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Author : Sharon Hope Fabriz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-01-15
Circling Toward Home written by Sharon Hope Fabriz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-15 with categories.
Circling Toward Home originates in the 1960s Mississippi home of a F.B.I. family from Minnesota and tumbles to the present day as a woman breaks with expectations to locate herself. Part bildungsroman, part lesbian love story, part elegy to loss, this personal account reveals how the author's outsiderness became the path to her awakening. This story examines the incremental revelations that have fashioned beliefs and actions, from childhood in Mississippi to late-stage lesbian lifestyle to the death of my father to the aftermath of that loss and the conscious choices along the way.
Scribner S Monthly
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1887
Scribner S Monthly written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1887 with categories.
Home Missions Annual Report Of The Presbyterian Board Of Home Missions
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Author : Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Home Missions
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889
Home Missions Annual Report Of The Presbyterian Board Of Home Missions written by Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Home Missions and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with Missions categories.
Walking Toward Home
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Author : James Everett Kibler
language : en
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Release Date : 2004-08-31
Walking Toward Home written by James Everett Kibler and has been published by Pelican Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-31 with Fiction categories.
"James Kibler understands that traditional stories endure because they are always new; they furnish the joys both of discovery and of rediscovery." --Fred Chappell, North Carolina poet laureate Acutely aware of lifetimes of missed opportunities and mistakes, the characters in James Everett Kibler's new novel unconsciously hold on to a persistent hope. Walking Toward Home presents snapshots of small-town people as they continue to care for the living while mourning the dead in ways that are not uniquely Southern, but universal in purpose. The magnetism of the local country store attracts a diverse group of neighbors who tell stories and impart wisdom that was earned the hard way. Walking Toward Home is set on the banks of the Tyger River in South Carolina, an area the author himself calls home. The trials and triumphs of Chauncey Doolittle and his friends and family are intimately shared among the members of their close community. Chauncey engages in a symbiotic relationship with both the land and the people of his home. He and his neighbors--cousin Kildee, who owns the local country store; Triggerfoot Tinsley, an independent cuss who gets into hilarious scrapes; and the two widow cousins who fish all day--are Southern eccentrics with a flair for the philosophical. Kibler's humor and poignancy are enhanced by the novel's lyrical language, which evokes the rhythm and music of Southern speech. The characters' stories of faith and mystery become a celebration of the world that has knocked them down but not completely out.