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Long Time Leaving eBooks
by Roy Jr Blount
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Long Time Leaving Summary
| ?I left the South in search of the Enlightenment. I?m pro-choice, in favor of gay marriage, and against creationism and the war in Iraq. But both my parents? people are deep Southern from many generations, and I spent a little over a third of my life, including the presumably most formative years (toilet training through college), living in the South. Mathematically, that makes me just about exactly as Southern as the American people, 34 percent of whom are Southern residents. But it goes deeper than math?my roots are Southern, I sound Southern, I love a lot of Southern stuff, and when my [Northern] local paper announces a festival to ?celebrate the spirit of differently abled dogs,? I react as a Southerner. I believe I care as much about dogs? feelings as anybody. It is hard for me to imagine that a dog with three legs minds being called a three-legged dog.?A sly, dry, hilarious collection of essays?his first in more than ten years?from the writer who, according to The New York Times Book Review, is ?in serious contention for the title of America?s most cherished humorist.?This time Blount focuses on his own dueling loyalties across the great American divide, North vs. South. Scholarly, raunchy, biting and affable, ol? Roy takes on topics ranging from chicken fingers to yellow-dog Democrats to Elvis?s toes. And he shares experiences: chatting with Ray Charles, rounding up rattlesnakes, watching George and Tammy record, meeting an Okefenokee alligator (also named George, or Georgette), 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.Roy on language: ?Remember when there was lots of agitated discussion of Ebonics, pro and con? I kept waiting for someone to say that if you acquire white English, you can become Clarence Thomas, whereas if you acquire black English, you can become Quentin Tarantino.?Roy on eating: ?The way folk... |
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