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Roy Blount's Book of Southern Humor
Contributor(s): Blount, Roy, Jr. (Editor)

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 ISBN: 0393036952     ISBN-13: 9780393036954
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
OUR PRICE: $58.90  

Binding Type: Hardcover
Published: November 1994
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Annotation: There may be no funnier species in the literary universe than a Southern writer on a roll. The richest vein of American humor - the broadest, the earthiest, the most outrageously inventive - can be found below the Mason-Dixon line, where the comic impulse just naturally seems allied to the native storytelling genius, and the sacred and the profane are on intimate terms. Roy Blount, Jr., himself a son of the South and on paper and in person one of the funniest men in America, has dug deep and foraged far and wide to produce the definitive treasury of Southern humor for our time. It comprises more than 150 selections, including stories, sketches, folk tales, essays, poems, memoirs, and blues and country and rock lyrics, arranged under such headings as "My People, My People (How's Your Mama 'n' Them?)", "Here Be Dragons, or How Come These Butterbeans Have an Alligator Taste?" and "Lying, and Other Arts of Communication". The wildly heterogeneous roster of contributors ranges from such enduring masters as William Faulkner, Mark Twain, Flannery O'Connor, Zora Neale Hurston, Joel Chandler Harris, Erskine Caldwell, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Tennessee Williams, and Eudora Welty to such brilliantly funny contemporaries as Molly Ivins, Dave Barry, Little Richard, Harry Crews, Clyde Edgerton, Lyle Lovett, Barry Hannah, Lee Smith, Charles Portis, Bailey White, Florence King, and Roy Blount, Jr., himself. If you could stop laughing long enough, you'd probably call Roy Blount's Book of Southern Humor a classic. And you'd be right.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Humor | Form - Essays
Dewey: 817.008
LCCN: 94-18611
Physical Information: 1.45" H x 6.46" W x 9.4" L (2.44 lbs) 670 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Southeast U.S.
Features: Dust Cover, Price on Product
Review Citations: Booklist 11/15/1994 pg. 571
Library Journal 10/01/1994 pg. 80
Publishers Weekly 09/05/1994 pg. 88
 
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Publisher Description:
The richest vein of American humor--the broadest, the earthiest, the most outrageously inventive--can be found below the Mason-Dixon line, where the comic impulse just naturally seems allied to the native storytelling genius, and the sacred and the profane are on the closest of terms.

Roy Blount, Jr., himself a native Southerner and on paper and in person one of the funniest men in America, has dug deep and foraged far and wide to produce the definitive treasury of Southern humor for our time. It comprises more than 150 selections, including stories, sketches, essays, poems, memoirs, and blues and C&W lyrics, arranged under such headings as My People, My People (How's Your Mama 'n Them?), Here Be Dragons, or, How Come These Butterbeans Have an Alligator Taste? and Lying and Other Forms of Communication. The wildly heterogeneous roster of contributors range from such classics as William Faulkner, Mark Twain, Flannery O'Connor, Zora Neale Hurston, and Eudora Welty to such brilliantly funny contemporaries as Molly Ivins, Dave Barry, Harry Crews, Ishmael Reed, Barry Hannah, Bailey White, and Roy Blount, Jr., his very own self.

If you could stop laughing long enough you'd probably call Roy Blount's Book of Southern Humor a classic. And you'd be right.

Contributor Bio(s): Blount, Roy: - Roy Blount Jr.'s recent books include the memoir Be Sweet and Roy Blount's Book of Southern Humor.
 
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