Author: Willie Morris
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307558169
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
This classic story of a boy, a dog, and small-town America is "a rich experience all around.... Skip turns out to be a dog worth writing about.... I'd take him home in a shot" (The New York Times Book Review). In 1943 in a sleepy town on the banks of the Yazoo River, a boy fell in love with a puppy with a lively gait and an intelligent way of listening. The two grew up together having the most wonderful adventures. My Dog Skip belongs on the same shelf as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Russell Baker's Growing Up. It will enchant readers of all ages for years to come. A major motion picture form Warner Brothers, starring Kevin Bacon, Diane Lane, Luke Wilson, Frankie Muniz, and "Eddie" from the TV show Frasier (as Skip), and produced by Mark Johnson (Rain Man).
My Dog Skip
Author: Willie Morris
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307558169
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
This classic story of a boy, a dog, and small-town America is "a rich experience all around.... Skip turns out to be a dog worth writing about.... I'd take him home in a shot" (The New York Times Book Review). In 1943 in a sleepy town on the banks of the Yazoo River, a boy fell in love with a puppy with a lively gait and an intelligent way of listening. The two grew up together having the most wonderful adventures. My Dog Skip belongs on the same shelf as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Russell Baker's Growing Up. It will enchant readers of all ages for years to come. A major motion picture form Warner Brothers, starring Kevin Bacon, Diane Lane, Luke Wilson, Frankie Muniz, and "Eddie" from the TV show Frasier (as Skip), and produced by Mark Johnson (Rain Man).
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307558169
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
This classic story of a boy, a dog, and small-town America is "a rich experience all around.... Skip turns out to be a dog worth writing about.... I'd take him home in a shot" (The New York Times Book Review). In 1943 in a sleepy town on the banks of the Yazoo River, a boy fell in love with a puppy with a lively gait and an intelligent way of listening. The two grew up together having the most wonderful adventures. My Dog Skip belongs on the same shelf as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Russell Baker's Growing Up. It will enchant readers of all ages for years to come. A major motion picture form Warner Brothers, starring Kevin Bacon, Diane Lane, Luke Wilson, Frankie Muniz, and "Eddie" from the TV show Frasier (as Skip), and produced by Mark Johnson (Rain Man).
My Mississippi
Author:
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781617034398
Category : Mississippi
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
A father and son present an eloquent portrait and personal evocations of modern Mississippi in this book which contemplates the realities of the present day, assesses the most vital concerns of the citizens, gauges how the state has changed, and beholds what the state is like as it enters the 21st century. 105 full-color photos.
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781617034398
Category : Mississippi
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
A father and son present an eloquent portrait and personal evocations of modern Mississippi in this book which contemplates the realities of the present day, assesses the most vital concerns of the citizens, gauges how the state has changed, and beholds what the state is like as it enters the 21st century. 105 full-color photos.
The Courting of Marcus Dupree
Author: Willie Morris
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1617031925
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
At the time of Marcus Dupree's birth, when Deep South racism was about to crest and shatter against the Civil Rights Movement, Willie Morris journeyed north in a circular transit peculiar to southern writers. His memoir of those years, North Toward Home, became a modern classic. In The Courting of Marcus Dupree he turned again home to Mississippi to write about the small town of Philadelphia and its favorite son, a black high-school quarterback. In Marcus Dupree, Morris found a living emblem of that baroque strain in the American character called "southern." Beginning on the summer practice fields, Morris follows Marcus Dupree through each game of his senior varsity year. He talks with the Dupree family, the college recruiters, the coach and the school principal, some of the teachers and townspeople, and, of course, with the young man himself. As the season progresses and the seventeen-year-old Dupree attracts a degree of national attention to Philadelphia neither known nor endured since "the Troubles" of the early sixties, these conversations take on a wider significance. Willie Morris has created more than a spectator's journal. He writes here of his repatriation to a land and a people who have recovered something that fear and misdirected loyalties had once eclipsed. The result is a fascinating, unusual, and even topical work that tells a story richer than its apparent subject, for it brings the whole of the eighties South, with all its distinctive resonances, to life.
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1617031925
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
At the time of Marcus Dupree's birth, when Deep South racism was about to crest and shatter against the Civil Rights Movement, Willie Morris journeyed north in a circular transit peculiar to southern writers. His memoir of those years, North Toward Home, became a modern classic. In The Courting of Marcus Dupree he turned again home to Mississippi to write about the small town of Philadelphia and its favorite son, a black high-school quarterback. In Marcus Dupree, Morris found a living emblem of that baroque strain in the American character called "southern." Beginning on the summer practice fields, Morris follows Marcus Dupree through each game of his senior varsity year. He talks with the Dupree family, the college recruiters, the coach and the school principal, some of the teachers and townspeople, and, of course, with the young man himself. As the season progresses and the seventeen-year-old Dupree attracts a degree of national attention to Philadelphia neither known nor endured since "the Troubles" of the early sixties, these conversations take on a wider significance. Willie Morris has created more than a spectator's journal. He writes here of his repatriation to a land and a people who have recovered something that fear and misdirected loyalties had once eclipsed. The result is a fascinating, unusual, and even topical work that tells a story richer than its apparent subject, for it brings the whole of the eighties South, with all its distinctive resonances, to life.
Willie
Author: Teresa Nicholas
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781628461053
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A fresh look at the life of a revered southern writer and editor
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781628461053
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A fresh look at the life of a revered southern writer and editor
Return to Dresden
Author: Maria Ritter
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1578065968
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
A clinical psychologist and Dresden survivor confronts national guilt for theNazi past.
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1578065968
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
A clinical psychologist and Dresden survivor confronts national guilt for theNazi past.
Good Old Boy
Author: Willie Morris
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780916242688
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
The author's boyhood escapades in his hometown of Yazoo City, Mississippi.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780916242688
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
The author's boyhood escapades in his hometown of Yazoo City, Mississippi.
Squint
Author: Jose P. Ramirez
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 160473339X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Lying in a hospital bed, José P. Ramirez, Jr. (b. 1948) almost lost everything because of a misunderstood disease. When the health department doctor gave him the Handbook for Persons with Leprosy, Ramirez learned his fate. Such a diagnosis in 1968 meant exile and hospitalization in the only leprosarium in the continental United States—Carville, Louisiana, 750 miles from his home in Laredo, Texas. In Squint: My Journey with Leprosy, Ramirez recalls being taken from his family in a hearse and thrown into a world filled with fear. He and his loved ones struggled against the stigma associated with the term “leper” and against beliefs that the disease was a punishment from God, that his illness was highly communicable, and that persons with Hansen's disease had to be banished from their communities. His disease not only meant separation from the girlfriend who would later become his wife, but also a derailment of all life's goals. In his struggle Ramirez overcame barriers both real and imagined and eventually became an international advocate on behalf of persons with disabilities. In Squint, titled for the sliver of a window through which persons with leprosy in medieval times were allowed to view Mass but not participate, Ramirez tells a story of love and perseverance over incredible odds.
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 160473339X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Lying in a hospital bed, José P. Ramirez, Jr. (b. 1948) almost lost everything because of a misunderstood disease. When the health department doctor gave him the Handbook for Persons with Leprosy, Ramirez learned his fate. Such a diagnosis in 1968 meant exile and hospitalization in the only leprosarium in the continental United States—Carville, Louisiana, 750 miles from his home in Laredo, Texas. In Squint: My Journey with Leprosy, Ramirez recalls being taken from his family in a hearse and thrown into a world filled with fear. He and his loved ones struggled against the stigma associated with the term “leper” and against beliefs that the disease was a punishment from God, that his illness was highly communicable, and that persons with Hansen's disease had to be banished from their communities. His disease not only meant separation from the girlfriend who would later become his wife, but also a derailment of all life's goals. In his struggle Ramirez overcame barriers both real and imagined and eventually became an international advocate on behalf of persons with disabilities. In Squint, titled for the sliver of a window through which persons with leprosy in medieval times were allowed to view Mass but not participate, Ramirez tells a story of love and perseverance over incredible odds.
Conversations with Willie Morris
Author: Willie Morris
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781578062362
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Interviews with the author of My Dog Skip and North Toward Home
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781578062362
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Interviews with the author of My Dog Skip and North Toward Home
New York Days
Author: Willie Morris
Publisher: Back Bay Books
ISBN: 9780316583985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The author describes his years as the youngest-ever editor-in-chief of "Harper's," recounting how he rubbed elbows with the likes of Woody Allen and Robert Kennedy
Publisher: Back Bay Books
ISBN: 9780316583985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The author describes his years as the youngest-ever editor-in-chief of "Harper's," recounting how he rubbed elbows with the likes of Woody Allen and Robert Kennedy
The Nominee
Author: Leslie H. Southwick
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1617039128
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
A firsthand account of the murky, faith-straightening processes by which federal judges are confirmed
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1617039128
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
A firsthand account of the murky, faith-straightening processes by which federal judges are confirmed