Roy Blount
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English
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A hilarious exploration of male-female communication and other momentous topics
Men don't tell women things for various reasons. 1. The things in question may not be true.2. It is better to keep one's mouth shut and be thought a pig than to open it and oink.3. There is a certain pleasure in holding certain considerations close to the chest.4. When there is a topic that might...
Men don't tell women things for various reasons. 1. The things in question may not be true.2. It is better to keep one's mouth shut and be thought a pig than to open it and oink.3. There is a certain pleasure in holding certain considerations close to the chest.4. When there is a topic that might...
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Fascinated by what made Lee such a charismatic, though reluctant, leader, Blount delves into the influences of Lee's illustrious but scandal-clouded ancestry: his hero-turned-scapegrace father, and his beloved, beautiful, husband-forsaken mother. In 1861, Lee was Lincoln's first choice to lead the Union troops, but his Virginia roots drew him, instead, to a Confederate command. -- Provided by publisher.
5) True grit
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English
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True Grit tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just fourteen when the coward Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 cash. Filled with an unwavering urge to avenge her father's blood, Mattie finds and, after some tenacious finagling, enlists one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available U.S. Marshal, as her partner in pursuit, and they head off to Indian Territory after the killer....
6) Edisto
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English
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"A novel that has drawn comparisons with the work of J.D. Salinger, Truman Capote, and Flannery O'Connor, Edisto centers on one Simons Everson Manigault, a twelve-year-old possessed of a vocabulary and sophistication way beyond his years and a preadolescent bewilderment with the behavior of adults. These include his mother, who is known as the Duchess, and his enigmatic father-surrogate, Taurus. Imbued with a strong sense of place, an isolated strip...
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Library of America volume 200
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Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Group
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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After 40 years of making a living using words in every medium, print or electronic, Blount still can't get over his ABCs. In this book, he celebrates the juju, the sonic and kinetic energies of letters and their combinations.
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007
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English
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"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,...
14) Hail, hail, euphoria!: presenting the Marx Brothers in Duck soup, the greatest war movie ever made
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It Books
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"The author of Alphabet Juice presents a wry exploration of the complicated consequences of food choices in today's world, sharing meditative poems, limericks and satirical articles on subjects ranging from bacon froth and kobe beef to the global climate and personal health.,"--NoveList.