Name: Long Time Leaving: Dispatches from Up South
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Author: Blount, Roy
ISBN: 9781582434582

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Long Time Leaving: Dispatches from Up South

Type

Physical Book

Author

Roy Blount

Publisher

Counterpoint LLC

Year

2009

Language

English

Pages

400

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.4 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm

Weight

0.52 kg.

ISBN

1582434581

ISBN13

9781582434582

Edition No.

Synopsis "Long Time Leaving: Dispatches from Up South"

In this acerbic, eminently quotable book, humorist Roy Blount Jr. focuses on his own dueling loyalties across the great American divide. Scholarly, raunchy, biting, and affable, Blount takes on topics ranging from chicken fingers and yellow dog Democrats to Elvis's toes while sharing some experiences of his own: chatting with Ray Charles, meeting an Okefenokee alligator, imagining Faulkner's tennis game, and being swept up, sort of, in the filming of Nashville. His yarns, analyses, and flights of fancy transcend all standard shades of Red, Blue, and in between. Blount's sidesplitting, irreverent musings may not end our tacit Civil War at long last, but they do clarify, or aptly complicate, divisive delusions on both sides of the long-standing national rift. Long Time Leaving is a comic ode to American variety and a droll assault on complacency both North and South from one of the most definitive and esteemed humorists of our time.

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