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Search - My Southern Journey: True Stories from the Heart of the South

My Southern Journey True Stories from the Heart of the South
Author: Rick Bragg

From the celebrated bestselling author of All Over but the Shoutin' and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Rick Bragg, comes a poignant and wryly funny collection of essays on life in the south. — Keenly observed and written with his insightful and deadpan sense of humor, he explores enduring Southern truths about home, place, spir... more »it, table, and the regions' varied geographies, including his native Alabama, Cajun country, and the Gulf Coast. Everything is explored, from regional obsessions from college football and fishing, to mayonnaise and spoonbread, to the simple beauty of a fish on the hook.

Collected from over a decade of his writing, with many never-before-published essays written specifically for this edition, My Southern Journey is an entertaining and engaging read, especially for Southerners (or feel Southern at heart) and anyone who appreciates great writing.

Contents:

Introduction: Home. The roses of Fairhope ; Mama always said ... choose your words carefully ; My brother's garden ; Pretty girl ; Crazy cat lady ; The porch ; Take your medicine, boy ; Time for the year's best nap ; My time machine ; All-night gospel; Saving face ; Endless summer ; Happy as a pig ; Red dirt --

Table. For a vegetable, I'll have white gravy ; Back to the bayou ; Traveling food ; Fully dressed ; Your first oyster ; Bad slaw; Never-ending Grace ; The plane truth ; Magic on the plate ; Seasoned in the South ; Summer snow ; The impossible turkey ; Honor thy matriarch ; Requiem for a fish sandwich --

Place. South toward home ; What stands in a storm ; No place like home ; Trade day ; Lost in the dark ; The eternal gulf ; Donkey business ; Armadillo ; Dixie snow ; Merry and bright ; Shopping ; My kind of town ; The lost gulf ; The Yankee mystique ; Cotton ; Stillness --

Craft. Why I write about home ; The fine art of piddling ; The color of words ; The blank notebook ; Fish story ; The quill and the mule ; Words on paper ; Wood, paint, nails, and soul ; Grandpa was a carpenter ; Stuck for good --

Spirit. Down here ; For the love of the game ; All Saint's Day ; When fireworks go South ; O Christmas Tree ; Wheels of time; The gift of loafering ; Holiday lies ; O Christmas Sock ; Cowboys are her weakness ; A cast of characters ; Nick of time; 109 yards returned, two points denied, and one twist left in the road ; Long time coming ; Born too late

ISBN-13: 9780848746391
ISBN-10: 0848746392
Publication Date: 9/15/2015
Pages: 256
Rating:

Currently 3.4/5 Stars.

3.4 stars, based on 7 ratings

Publisher: Oxmoor House
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio CD
Members Wishing: 15
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Literature & Fiction >> Essays & Correspondence >> Essays
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Literature & Fiction >> World Literature >> United States >> Anthologies
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