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Availability:In StockContributor:Roy Jr. BlountSeries:Brown Thrasher BooksTheme:Cultural Region/SouthPublish date:9/1/1998Pages:324
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of Georgia PressISBN-13:9780820320601ISBN-10:0820320609UPC:9780820320601Book Category:HumorBook Subcategory:FormBook Topic:EssaysSize:8.18 x 5.46 x 0.76 inchesWeight:0.3Product ID:SCT4S057A9
Have you ever asked yourself, Am I southern? If not geographically, then deep down, at heart? Or, if I am not southern myself, do I know people who are southern, whom I misunderstand? Is there some authority I should consult?
Crackers. Without this book, you will just flail around in the shallows of Southernity, with nothing solid to hold onto. Roy Blount Jr. puts you in touch with possums, heterosexist dancing, people named Junior, a two-headed four-armed three-legged gospel-singing man, your feelings about the Carter administration. These specifics take you out into the depths. As a character in Crackers puts it, "I don't read books about the South, but I read southern books. Hoooo, people stealing one another's wooden legs, setting fires, making tarbabies out of one another. . . ." Crackers is a southern book.Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of Georgia PressISBN-13:9780820320601ISBN-10:0820320609UPC:9780820320601Book Category:HumorBook Subcategory:FormBook Topic:EssaysSize:8.18 x 5.46 x 0.76 inchesWeight:0.3Product ID:SCT4S057A9
ROY BLOUNT JR.'s works include the memoir Be Sweet: A Conditional Love Story, the novel First Hubby, the screenplay for Larger than Life, the edited anthology Roy Blount's Book of Southern Humor, and such collections as Now, Where Were We? and Not Exactly What I Had in Mind. He is a frequent guest on Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion" and a columnist for the Oxford American. He lives in New York City and western Massachusetts.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
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