South toward home : travels in Southern literature

The Resource South toward home : travels in Southern literature
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South toward home : travels in Southern literature
Title remainder
travels in Southern literature
Statement of responsibility
Margaret Eby
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Subject
Language
eng
Summary
"A literary travelogue that ventures deep into the heart of classic Southern literature. As the writer Elif Batuman did for Russian literature in The Possessed, Margaret Eby does for Southern literature in this charming book of literary exploration. From Mississippi (William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Richard Wright, Barry Hannah) to Alabama (Harper Lee, Truman Capote) to Georgia (Flannery O'Connor, Harry Crews) and beyond, Eby--herself a Southerner--travels through the Deep South to the places that famous Southern authors lived in and wrote about. South Toward Home reveals how they took these places and the lives of their inhabitants and transmuted them into lasting literature. Whether meeting the man in charge of feeding Flannery O'Connor's peacocks in Milledgeville, peering into Faulkner's liquor cabinet, or seeking out John Kennedy Toole's iconic hot dog vendors in New Orleans, Eby combines biographical detail with expert criticism to deliver a rich and evocative tribute to the literary South" --
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Provided by publisher
Cataloging source
DLC
Dewey number
810.9/975
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
LC call number
PS261
LC item number
.E39 2015
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography

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