South to a Very Old Place

South to a Very Old Place
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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 inÂ 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 â€œthe poetâ€™s language, the novelistâ€™s sensibility, the essayistâ€™s clarity, the jazzmanâ€™s imagination, the gospel singer's depth of feelingâ€ (The New Yorker).

â€œHis 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.â€â€”Toni Morrison,Â The New York Times Book Review
Country USA
Brand Vintage
Manufacturer Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 1991-09-03
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780679736950

Country	USA
Brand	Vintage
Manufacturer	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	1991-09-03
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780679736950

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