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Long time leaving : dispatches from up South / Roy Blount, Jr.

by Blount, Roy, Jr., 1941-

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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.

Blount, Roy, Jr., 1941-

Group identity -- Southern States.

Group identity -- Northeastern States.

North and south.

National characteristics, American.

Southern States -- Civilization.

Northeastern States -- Civilization.

Southern States -- Civilization -- Humor.

Northeastern States -- Civilization -- Humor.

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0712/2007006799.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0735/2007006799-b.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0735/2007006799-d.html

Electronic Resource

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0735/2007006799-s.html

xii, 383 p. ; 25 cm.

"Hard-working humorist Roy Blount Jr. lives in the North but he's from the South, a delicious tension that has always informed and shaped his work. In this new collection, he directs his acerbic wit and finely-tuned insight toward the persistent and colorful differences between the two. His essays treat every conceivable topic on which North and South misunderstand each other, from music to sports, eating, education, politics, child-rearing, religion, race, and language ("remember when there was lots of discussion of 'ebonics'?"). In this eminently quotable collection, Blount does justice to the charming, funny, infuriating facets of Southern tradition and their equally odd Northern counterpoints" -- from publisher's web-site.

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