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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hoffman, Roy, 1953- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2001]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Hoffman, Roy, > 1953-
Hoffman, Roy, > 1953- > Childhood and youth.
United States Local History.
History & Archaeology.
Regions & Countries - Americas.
Travel.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Mobile (Ala.) > History.
Mobile (Ala.) > Description and travel.
Mobile (Ala.) > Biography.
Hoffman, Roy, 1953- > Childhood and youth.
Alabama > Mobile.
Mobile (Ala.) > Biography.
Mobile (Ala.) > History.
Mobile (Ala.) > Description and travel.
Biographies.
History.
collective biographies.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (394 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780817388300

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