North Toward Home

Author : Willie Morris
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0375724605
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book North Toward Home written by Willie Morris and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2000-08-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."

Author : Julia Reed
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250166349
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book South Toward Home written by Julia Reed and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays written for the column "The high & the low" in the magazine Garden & gun.

Author : Willie Morris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Terrains of the Heart and Other Essays on Home written by Willie Morris and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jack Bales
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476612315
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Willie Morris written by Jack Bales and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-06-14 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Weaks Morris was a writer defined in large measure by his Southern roots. A seventh generation Mississippian, he grew up in Yazoo City frequently reminded of his heritage. Spending his college years at the University of Texas and at Oxford University in England gave Morris a taste of the world and, at the very least, something to write home about. This volume is a comprehensive reference work dealing with Willie Morris’ life and works. It is also a literary biography based on hundreds of primary sources such as letters, newspaper articles and interviews. The principal focus is on Morris’ literary legacy, which includes works such as North Toward Home, New York Days and My Dog Skip.

Author : Willie Morris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780916242688
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Good Old Boy written by Willie Morris and published by . This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's boyhood escapades in his hometown of Yazoo City, Mississippi.

Author : Willie Morris
Publisher : Back Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 9780316583985
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New York Days written by Willie Morris and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 1994-11-02 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author describes his years as the youngest-ever editor-in-chief of "Harper's," recounting how he rubbed elbows with the likes of Woody Allen and Robert Kennedy

Author : Margaret Eby
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 039335329X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book South Toward Home written by Margaret Eby and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

Author : Julia Reed
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1250166365
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book South Toward Home written by Julia Reed and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Willie Morris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Terrains of the Heart and Other Essays on Home written by Willie Morris and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Margaret Eby
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393248267
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book South Toward Home: Travels in Southern Literature written by Margaret Eby and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.