Books of passage
Subtitle: 27 North Carolina writers on the books that changed their lives
By: edited by David Perkins ; illustrated by David Terry.
Contributors: Perkins, David, 1954-
Publisher: Down Home Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Asheboro, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
Subjects: Books and reading -- North Carolina.; North Carolina -- Intellectual life.
Table of contents: title: James Applewhite on William Wordsworth and William Carlos Williams; title: Daphne Athas on Leo Tolstoy's Confessions; title: Doris Betts on Hurlbut's Story of the Bible for young and old; title: Jerry Bledsoe on Reynolds Price's A long and happy life; title: Fred Chappell on Julia Child's Mastering the art of French cooking; title: Hal Crowther on Alan Paton's Cry, the beloved country; title: Clyde Edgerton on Ralph Waldo Emerson; title: Linda Flowers on James Agee's Let us now praise famous men; title: Philip Gerard on William Styron's Sophie's choice; title: David Guy on Ernest Hemingway; title: William McCranor Henderson  on John Dos Passos' The big money; title: Fred Hobson on W.J. Cash's The mind of the South; title: Janet Lembke on Thomas Bulfinch's The age of fable; title: William E. Leuchtenburg on Jonathan Daniels' A Southerner discovers the South; title: Phillip Manning on Aldo Leopold's A Sand County almanac; title: Tim McLaurin on The autobiography of Malcolm X; title: Toril Moi on Simone de Beauvoir's The second sex; title: Robert Morgan on Leo Tolstoy's War and peace; title: Howard Owen on The Chip Hilton books; title: Reynolds Price on Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary; title: John Shelton Reed on The Agrarian's I'll take my stand; title: Louis D. Rubin Jr. on Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel; title: James Seay on William Faulkner's That evening sun go down; title: Lee Smith on James Still's River of Earth; title: Elizabeth Spencer on Willa Cather's Death comes for the archbishop; title: Jane Tompkins on Robert Pirsig's Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance; title: Tom Wicker on the Saturday evening post.