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Book

Where I come from : stories from the deep South

Call Number

  • 814 B8135.1 (CEN, OSH)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.

Physical Description

x, 237 pages ; 25 cm

Uniform Title

Essays. Selections

Summary

"From the best-selling, Pulitzer prize-winning author of All Over But the Shoutin' and The Best Cook in the World, a collection of his irresistible columns from Southern Living and Garden & Gun. A collection of wide-ranging and endearingly personal columns by the celebrated author, newspaper columnist, and Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Bragg, culled from his best-loved pieces in Southern Living and Garden & Gun. From his love of Tupperware ("My Affair with Tupperware") to the decline of country music, from the legacy of Harper Lee to the metamorphosis of the pick-up truck, the best way to kill fire ants, the unbridled excess of Fat Tuesday, and why any self-respecting Southern man worth his salt should carry a good knife, Where I Come From is an ode to the stories and the history of the deep south, written with tenderness, wit, and deep affection--a book that will be treasured by fans old and new"--

Notes

"This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso.

Contents

  • If it was easy, everyone would live here
  • We will never see their like again
  • Faux southern
  • The best part of the pig
  • Relations
  • Haunted mansions
  • Christmas in a can
  • The sporting life-- and death
  • Institutions.

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