Due South: Dispatches from Down Home - Rilegato

Brunner, R. Scott

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ISBN 10: 0375502556 ISBN 13: 9780375502552

Casa editrice: Villard Books, 1999

Riassunto

In a wise and witty anthology of essays, the popular commentator for NPR's All Things Considered shares his observations, reminiscences, and meditations on Southern culture and language, family, personal relationsips, home cooking, and more. 35,000 first printing. Tour.

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Informazioni sull'autore

R. Scott Brunner is a commentator on Public Radio in Mississippi and National Public Radio's <i>All Things Considered.</i> A Bessemer, Alabama, native, he is a graduate of the University of Montevallo and Auburn University at Montgomery. He is an association executive in Jackson, Mississippi, where he lives with his wife and their three children.

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rners respect tradition, know the value of a good story. We admire the written word because we still have among us some who are not too far removed from a time when our land was ravaged, our people destitute and hungry, and writing was the only thing there was to do. Perhaps that's why we also place such importance on knowing our lineage. Down here, we try to derive our identity not from our possessions, but from our roots--not what we have, but who we are. That's because our forebears learned a long time ago that everything else is expendable."<br>--from <b>Due South</b><br><br>Scott Brunner spent countless childhood afternoons roaming the hills and hollows of his grandparents' small farm near Parrish, Alabama, picking peas, fishing with his grandfather, and eating his grandmother's fried apple pies. Those experiences, and others like them, formed the basis for the unforgettable essays that make up this book.<br><br>In <b>Due South</b>, Brunner offers a wonderful colle

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Villard Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0375502556
• ISBN 13: 9780375502552
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 151
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile