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Travels with George in search of Ben Hur and other meanderings /
An accomplished Southern storyteller's colorful reflections on literature, booze, firearms, violence, and sex.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbia, SC :
University of South Carolina Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Things Literary, More or Less; Travels with George in Search of Ben Hur; The Mosquito; The Lady with the Quick Simile; Workshopping a Cowboy Poem; Was Emily Mad or Merely Angry?; On the Death of Edgar Allan Poe; Making Preparations for the Tour; The Girl in the Clean, Well-Lighted Place; Explaining a Poem to a Student; Some Rare and Unusual Books; Tales from Kentucky Lawyers; The Boy who Spoke in Hymns; Making a Dam in Segovia; Just Thinking about Shit; To San Juan and Back: Ah, Youth!
- On Likker and GunsDrinking: A Truncated History; Rats!; The Bowhunter Asks for My Bladder; The Day the Sharpshooter Killed Something he didn't Intend to; Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho, Off to the Gun Show we Go ... ; From "Growing Up in Mississippi Poor and White but not Quite Trash" (An As-Yet-Unpublished Memoir); Trains: The Beginning of a Lifelong Quest for Understanding; Learning about Sex.