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Where I come from : stories from the deep South Cover Image Book Book

Where I come from : stories from the deep South

Bragg, Rick (author.).

Summary: "From the best-selling, Pulitzer prize-winning author of All Over But the Shoutin' and The Best Cook in the World, a collection of his irresistible columns from Southern Living and Garden & Gun. A collection of wide-ranging and endearingly personal columns by the celebrated author, newspaper columnist, and Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Bragg, culled from his best-loved pieces in Southern Living and Garden & Gun. From his love of Tupperware ("My Affair with Tupperware") to the decline of country music, from the legacy of Harper Lee to the metamorphosis of the pick-up truck, the best way to kill fire ants, the unbridled excess of Fat Tuesday, and why any self-respecting Southern man worth his salt should carry a good knife, Where I Come From is an ode to the stories and the history of the deep south, written with tenderness, wit, and deep affection--a book that will be treasured by fans old and new"--

Item details

  • ISBN: 9780593317785
  • ISBN: 0593317785
  • ISBN: 9780593317792
  • Physical Description: print
    x, 237 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.

Contents / Notes

General Note:
"This is a Borzoi book"--title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note: If it was easy, everyone would live here -- We will never see their like again -- Faux southern -- The best part of the pig -- Relations -- Haunted mansions -- Christmas in a can -- The sporting life ... and death -- Institutions.

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Genre: Autobiographies.
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  • 1 out of 1 copy are currently available at Griffin-Spalding County Library.

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      Griffin-Spalding County Library 		975 BRAGG ( Send Text)
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