Long time leaving
Subtitle: dispatches from up South
By: by Roy Blount, Jr.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9780307266187
Subjects: Blount, Roy; Group identity -- Southern States; Group identity -- Northeastern States; North and south; National characteristics, American; Southern States -- Civilization; Northeastern States -- Civilization; Southern States -- Civilization -- Humor; Northeastern States -- Civilization -- Humor
Genres: Humor.
Description: "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, race, and language ("remember when there was lots of discussion of 'ebonics'?"). In this eminently quotable collection, Blount does justice to the charming, funny, infuriating facets of Southern tradition and their equally odd Northern counterpoints" -- from publisher's web-site.