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Stories from Home /
Brimming with his rich humor, Jerry Clower's book manifests the unsurpassed southern art of yarn spinning. It shows as well the nature of the man for whom good storytelling is more than just show business. Nashville's funniest man had a serious side. Deep in the merry heart of this comic e...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University of Mississippi Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; All I Am: A Conversation with Jerry Clower; Growing Up Country; The Go-Gitter; Peanut Boiling Was Required; Rat Killin'; Rats in the Corn Crib; Cutworm Smith; A Double Fireplace; Stealing Teacakes; Steel Marbles; Justice for All; Mr. Duvall Scott's Chicken; Chittlins; Go Vote; Why Can't Johnny Read?; Judgment in the Sky; A Family Named Ledbetter; The Burning Building; The Last Piece of Chicken; The Grassers; The New Chandelier; Johnson Grass; Uncle Versie's Trial; Uncle Versie's Bond; Peanuts; Hitler on the Front Porch.
- Runaway TruckSitting Up with the Dead; Newgene Ledbetter; The Fish and the Edsel; Newgene and the Lion; Deep Water Baptist; Clovis Gets a Job; Clovis Goes to Court; Clovis the Constable; Claude and the Game Warden; Double First Cousin; The New Baby; Last Rites; Railroad Man; Public School Music Class; Wooden Leg; Me and Marcel; Wanna Buy a Possum? tot; Marcel and the City Fellow; Play Pretties; Marcel's Tongue; Marcel's Plantation; The Devil; Ox Pullin' Contest; Our First Banana; Civil War; Marcel's Talking Chain Saw; Green Persimmon Wine no; Marcel's Race Horse.
- Marcel Ledbetter Moving CompanyEmployment Office; Marcel the Truck Driver; Marcel and the Lady; Is Anybody Up There?; Airport Goodbyes; Tater Rides the Moped; God's Gonna Take Care of Me; Temperance Meeting; Here's Hope; The Baptizing; Killin' Offense; The Preacher's Water; Two Mean Brothers; The Dead Cat; The Pulpit Committee; God's Gonna Take Care of Me; Mama's Deal and Other Family Matters; Mama's Deal; My Katy Burns; Wesley Trees the TV; Sonny and Rambo; Tar Baby; The Deacon's Son; John Dunn; Cholesterol; Elevator; They Comin' Back; Shoot This Thing!; A Coon Huntin' Story.
- Coon Huntin' on TVSquirrel Huntin'; Peg Leg; Deer Huntin'; The First Deer; Quail Huntin'; Bird Huntin' at Uncle Versie's; Little Dogs and Big Dogs; Little Dogs and Big Dogs; Mike; Little Red; Faster than Highball; Bear Bryant of the Litter; Old Highball; Old Blue; Broccoli; Nicki; Puppy Love; Seeing Eye Dog; Bilingual Dog; The Lap of Luxury; Crack, W.L., and Rover; The Coon Huntin' Monkey; Proud to Be an American; The Resort Hotel; The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth; Lay Still; Fifteen-Yard Penalty; The Inventory; Big City Vocabulary; A New Bull; Clower Takes a Trip; Neighbor's Rabbit.
- Apple Pie and CoffeeBill's Vacation; The Hitchhiker; Salesman at the Funeral; Hog Feed; The Maddest Man I Ever Saw; Feudin' Stars; How to Tell Time; Procto; The Chauffeur and the Professor; My New House; The Greatest Disservice; A Compliment on Us; Negativism; Proud.