Poems describe the author's memories of life in rural Mississippi, including snakes, cotton, food, courtship, weddings, worship, and funerals
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Poems describe the author's memories of life in rural Mississippi, including snakes, cotton, food, courtship, weddings, worship, and funerals
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Very Good. Signed and inscribed by the author on the flyleaf. Hardcover with dust jacket in Very Good condition. Clean pages. Good binding. Minimal wear to the exterior. Ships fast and guaranteed well protected with domestic tracking.
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VG in Good jacket. Size: 9.2 x 6 x 0.6 inches; Dust jacket condition: Good. Jacket creased. with several short tears at top edge. Nights Under a Tin Roof is the first book written by James A. Autry, a southerner, a Mississippian whose travels and career as Air Force Pilot, newspaper reporter, and national magazine editor and publisher have taken him far from his boyhood in the Deep South, both in geographical distance and personal perspective. Now, through his recollections, he has returned to the nurturing presence of his Mississippi roots, to examine the forces which shaped him. His ringing, clear verse--with its wonderful synthesis of people, places, and voices--focuses on the simple rhythms of rural life familiar to Americans of all regions. To accompany Autry on his private odyssey is to attend country funerals, weddings, church revivals, family reunions, courtships, dinners on the grounds--all rendered with a stunningly vivid recreation of images drawn from a unique American heritage. As explained in the Foreword, Autry calls his verse "pieces" of recollections "because their shape comes to me as stories and then as pieces of a larger story." These recollected moments of the 1940s are not the product, however, of the traditional Southern expatriate "because they were not seen with the adult eye or filtered through the sensitivities of the educated." Thus has Autiy achieved a remarkably dense texture of memory which forges with readers of all ages and backgrounds what John Mack Carter, in his Introduction, calls "kinship." Carter attributes this immediate bond of sensibility between author and reader to a shared experience of "a time that promised to go on forever. We were living in an endless summer that owed nothing to tomorrow, and we were bound by neither urgency nor despair....For all of us lucky enough to know who we are, and those of us still eager to find out, Jim Autry has laid this roof of tin." 98 pages.
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Like New in Like New jacket. First Edition, 3rd Printing (1985). Published by Yoknapatawpha Press, 1983. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Price-clipped dust jacket is like new with very light shelf wear. 88 pages. ISBN: 0916242269. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!
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Very good in good jacket. 24 cm, 88 pages. Illus., front DJ flap price clipped, slight wear to DJ edges. Introduction by John Mack Carter. Signed by the author.
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Very good, poor. 24 cm, 88, illus., piece missing in rear DJ. Introduction by John Mack Carter. Inscribed by the author. This is the author's first book.