Roy Blount

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Crackers (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

An indispensible guide to southernness from revered humorist and unapologetic curmudgeon Roy Blount Jr. When a simple-talking, peanut-warehousing, grit-eating Southern Baptist Cracker got himself nominated for president of the United States in 1976, it set Roy Blount Jr. to thinking-about the South, about southerners, and about southernness. The result is a collection of savagely funny and insightful takes on redneck heaven, whiskey, blood, possums, and a great number of other things. Blount turns his gimlet eye on his Dixie home, and in the process, he clears up long-held misconceptions (and creates new ones) about the people who reside below the Mason-Dixon line. Crackersdelivers classic Blount, whether you are a proud southerner or a clueless Yankee.

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Autor

Roy Blount Jr. is the author of twenty-three books. The first, About Three Bricks Shy of a Load,was expanded into About Three Bricks Shy . . . and the Load Filled Up. It is often called one of the best sports books of all time. His subsequent works have taken on a range of subjects, from Duck Soup, to Robert E. Lee, to what cats are thinking, to how to savor New Orleans, to what it's like being married to the first woman president of the United States. Blount is a panelist on NPR's Wait Wait . . . Don't Tell Me!, an ex-president of the Authors Guild, a usage consultant for the American Heritage Dictionary, a New York Public Library Literary Lion, and a member of both the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the band the Rock Bottom Remainders. In 2009, Blount received the University of North Carolina's Thomas Wolfe Prize. The university cited "his voracious appetite for the way words sound and for what they really mean." Timeplaces Blount "in the tradition of the great curmudgeons like H. L. Mencken and W. C. Fields." Norman Mailer has said, "Page for page, Roy Blount is as funny as anyone I've read in a long time." Garrison Keillor told the Paris Review, "Blount is the best. He can be literate, uncouth, and soulful all in one sentence." Blount's essays, articles, stories, and verses have appeared in over one hundred and fifty publications, including the New Yorker, the New York Times, Esquire, the Atlantic, Sports Illustrated, the Oxford American, and Garden & Gun. He comes from Decatur, Georgia, and lives in western Massachusetts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Road Media
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781480471900
• Artikelnr.: 41058124