The highly acclaimed novelist and biographer Albert Murray tells his classic memoir of growing up in Alabama during the 1920s and 1930s in South to a Very Old Place . Intermingling remembrances of youth with engaging conversation, African-American folklore, and astute cultural criticism, it is at once an intimate personal journey and an incisive social history, informed by "the poet's language, the novelist's sensibility, the essayist's clarity, the jazzman's imagination, the gospel singer's depth of feeling" ( The New ...
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The highly acclaimed novelist and biographer Albert Murray tells his classic memoir of growing up in Alabama during the 1920s and 1930s in South to a Very Old Place . Intermingling remembrances of youth with engaging conversation, African-American folklore, and astute cultural criticism, it is at once an intimate personal journey and an incisive social history, informed by "the poet's language, the novelist's sensibility, the essayist's clarity, the jazzman's imagination, the gospel singer's depth of feeling" ( The New Yorker ). "His perceptions are firmly based in the blues idiom, and it is black music no less than literary criticism and historical analysis that gives his work its authenticity, its emotional vigor and its tenacious hold on the intellect. . . . [It] destroys some fashionable sociopolitical interpretations of growing up black."--Toni Morrison, The New York Times Book Review
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Add this copy of South to a Very Old Place to cart. $7.04, fair condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1971 by McGraw-Hill Companies.
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Acceptable. Acceptable condition. Acceptable dust jacket. A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
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New York. 1971. McGraw Hill. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. 0070440735. 230 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Isadore Seltzer. Photo credit by Hugh Bell. keywords: Literature Black America. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Home for Mr. Murray is the South; Alabama, specifically-he spent his early years in Mobile and was educated at the Tuskegee Institute. Two years ago, a fellow Southerner, Willie Morris, commissioned him to write a couple of articles for Harper's ‘Going Home' series. He was to travel around the South, interviewing leading white Southern intellectuals and writers. Mr. Murray took off on this journey-revisiting Mobile and Tuskegee as well as Atlanta, Greensboro, New Orleans, and Greenville-and suddenly found himself writing this book, In part, it is a book about one black intellectual's perspectives on a selected number of white Southern writers, but as Mr. Murray says, ‘Perhaps more than that it is simply about a black intellectual being in direct, personal, man-to-man contact with white intellectuals, who after all are neither more Southern than he nor more committed to literature as a basic discipline. As such, it is also an attempt to shift the emphasis of the current national dialog from academic theory and news media clichE to the texture of personal experience, representative anecdotes of reality, the poetry inherent in memory. ' It is the poetry and truth of actual experience that is Mr. Murray's constant preoccupation. He openly declares war on abstraction-whether it is the language of the sociologists or the rhetoric of certain black power. In form, this book is wonderfully free and innovative. As the author talks with Robert Penn Warren, C. V Woodward, Jonaathan Daniels, Walker Percy, and others, he reflects on the South past and present; on the intermingled blackness and whiteness of American culture; and spins off into recollections of his boyhood and youth. inventory #19065.
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Fine book in a Fine dust jacket. 230 pages First edition, first printing. Dust jacket design by Isadore Seltzer. His second book. Fine book with the top stain lightly faded in a fine dust jacket with the spine slightly darkened. A beautiful copy!
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Add this copy of South to a Very Old Place By Albert Murray (1971-08-05) to cart. $59.41, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1971 by New York McGraw-Hill.
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Fine book in a Fine dust jacket. 230 pages. First edition, first printing. Dust jacket design by Isadore Seltzer. His second book. Fine book in a fine dust jacket with the front cover a touch dusty. A beautiful copy!
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Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0070440735. First edition. Fine in close to fine dust jacket. (Couple tiny edge nicks in jacket. Small spot of rubbing on spine of jacket. ) Author's SECOND book.
