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Back Home : Journeys through Mobile /
After twenty years in New York City, a prize-winning writer takesa ""long look back"" at his hometown of Mobile, Alabama. In Back Home: Journeys through Mobile, Roy Hoffmantells stories--through essays, feature articles, and memoir--of one ofthe South's oldest and most color...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
[2001]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a List of Illustrations; Introduction; Part I. Going Downtown; My Grandfather''s World; A Walk Down Dauphin; A Contract for Watermelons; The Enduring Ring; Corner Drugstores, Moviehouses, and Bread; The Lost Counter Culture; Moviehouse Dreams; Our Daily Bread; Pictures of Overbey; Bienville Square Bus Stop; Part II. On the Dock of the Bay; Reading the Lights; On Fairhope Pier; Coming to Port; A Night With a Bar Pilot; Bearing the Load; Shore Leave; Hurricane Chronicles; Hurricane People; Old Hurricane Stories; Waiting for Georges; A World of Water; Jubilee! | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Part III. Through the CountrysideOld Highway 90; King Cotton''s New Face; The Miller''s Tale; The Music of ""Pah-cahns""; Part IV. Colorful Competitions; Baseball in the Blood; Tommie Littleton: Gentleman Boxer; Men of Steel: Wheelchair Basketball; The Great Anvil Shoot; Part V. Tangled Legacies; Peter''s Legacies; Search for a Slave Ship; Alexis Herman Comes Home; Long Lives the Mockingbird; Part VI. Newcomers Among Us; Las Familias de la Tierra; By the Sweat of Their Brows; Helping Hands for Children; On the Asian Coast; Khampou''s Village; Buddhist Temple; Part VII. Intriguing Portraits. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Sage VoicesJoe Langan''s City Limits; Albert Murray''s House of Blues; Alma Fisher: Out of Auschwitz; Past Triumphs; Dr. James Franklin: Healing Us Still; Ben May: The Quiet Philanthropist; U.S. Attorney Armbrecht: A Matter of Will; Close Ties Far Away; Morocco to Mobile: Paul Bowles'' Secret Journey; Monumental Talent: Tina Allen''s Heroic Sculptures; Part VIII. The Seasonal Round; As the Calendar Turns; Rain Town, U.S.A.; Azaleas at 8 mph; Point Clear P.O.; In My Parents'' Dancesteps; The End-of-Year Recital; Summer Heat; The First Music of Fall; Already Home for the Holidays; Snow! | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Holiday LightsMarking Time; Part IX. Mardi Gras Drums; Let the Good Times Roll; Welcome Millennium; Acknowledgments; Permissions. | |
| 520 | |a After twenty years in New York City, a prize-winning writer takesa ""long look back"" at his hometown of Mobile, Alabama. In Back Home: Journeys through Mobile, Roy Hoffmantells stories--through essays, feature articles, and memoir--of one ofthe South's oldest and most colorful port cities. Many of the pieces heregrew out of Hoffman's work as Writer-in-Residence for his hometown newspaper, the Mobile Register, a position he took after working in New YorkCity for twenty years as a journalist, fiction writer, book critic, teacher, and s. | ||
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