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South Toward Home: Travels in Southern Literature par Margaret Eby
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laytonwoman3rd | 1 autre critique | Mar 16, 2018 | South Toward Home: Travels in Southern Literature by Margaret Eby is a wonderful read if you are interested in fine writers and the south. The south has produced so many exceptional writers and Eby shares her take on several as she visits their home towns on a trip through the south. We enjoy Eudora Welty in Jackson, Mississippi, Faulkner in Oxford, Mississippi , Carson McCullers in Georgia as well as many others. I love the south and I love the storytelling of southerners so this book was right up my alley. I urge you to read it if you have similar interests.
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SigmundFraud | Oct 23, 2016 | Jackson, Mississippi and Eudora Welty
Richard Wright.
Faulkner
Flannery O'Conner
Harry Crew
Harper Lee and Truman Capote
John Kennedy Toole
Larry Brown
Barry Hannah
There are a few of these authors whose books I never read. This book definitely made me want to read them, so I will be reading from the reading list the author kindly provided in the back of the book. Looking forward to this task. This gives such a wonderful insight into their novels, their lives and how the testaments of many of them have lived on. Quite some characters they all were, some admired each other, others didn't care for the some of them and found their books to be cop outs. Used their own small spaces of earth to write about things that they questioned or just brought to life their own small corner of space.
Harry Crew is not celebrated at all in his town, where he has a cousin who still lives. Nothing was preserved and the people don't like to talk about his books. He ins one of the authors I have never read and I found interesting what was revealed in this book about his non fiction offering [book:A Childhood: The Biography of a Place|24849] and his character as well.
A delightful read, revealing to me a different and fresh way of looking at these wonderful authors. She brought New Orleans, Bourbon street to life to life, following the path of the Confederacy of Dunces. Interesting to see how their legacies live on and how they are now perceived by readers.
ARC from publisher.
Richard Wright.
Faulkner
Flannery O'Conner
Harry Crew
Harper Lee and Truman Capote
John Kennedy Toole
Larry Brown
Barry Hannah
There are a few of these authors whose books I never read. This book definitely made me want to read them, so I will be reading from the reading list the author kindly provided in the back of the book. Looking forward to this task. This gives such a wonderful insight into their novels, their lives and how the testaments of many of them have lived on. Quite some characters they all were, some admired each other, others didn't care for the some of them and found their books to be cop outs. Used their own small spaces of earth to write about things that they questioned or just brought to life their own small corner of space.
Harry Crew is not celebrated at all in his town, where he has a cousin who still lives. Nothing was preserved and the people don't like to talk about his books. He ins one of the authors I have never read and I found interesting what was revealed in this book about his non fiction offering [book:A Childhood: The Biography of a Place|24849] and his character as well.
A delightful read, revealing to me a different and fresh way of looking at these wonderful authors. She brought New Orleans, Bourbon street to life to life, following the path of the Confederacy of Dunces. Interesting to see how their legacies live on and how they are now perceived by readers.
ARC from publisher.
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