| Growing Up in the South Contributor(s): Jones, Suzanne (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0451528735 ISBN-13: 9780451528735 Publisher: Signet Book OUR PRICE: $8.96 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: November 2003 Annotation: This collection of stories and excerpts from 24 of the best storytellers and writers of modern Southern literature features "coming of age" stories by William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, and Eudora Welty. Features an Introduction by the editor. Reissue. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | American - General - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2003050410 |
| Series: Signet Classics |
| Physical Information: 1.19" H x 4.2" W x 6.72" (0.56 lbs) 544 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - South |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Something about the South has inspired the imaginations of an extraordinary number of America's best storytellers--and greatest writers. That quality may be a rich, unequivocal sense of place, a living connection with the past, or the contradictions and passions that endow this region with awesome beauty and equally awesome tragedy. The stories in this superb collection of modern Southern writing are about childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood--in other words, about growing up in the South. Flannery O'Connor's "Everything That Rises Must Converge," set in a South that remains segregated even after segregation is declared illegal, is the story of a white college student who chastises his mother for her prejudice against blacks. But black, white, aristocrat, or sharecropper, each of these 23 authors is unmistakably Southern--and their writing is indisputably wonderful. |