
Long Time Leaving
Dispatches from Up South (Unabridged Selections)
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Roy Blount Jr.
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Roy Blount Jr.
This time Blount focuses on his own dueling loyalties across the great American divide, North vs. South. Scholarly, raunchy, biting, and affable, ol' Roy takes on topics ranging from chicken fingers to yellow-dog Democrats to Elvis' toes. And he shares experiences: chatting with Ray Charles, rounding up rattlesnakes, watching George and Tammy record, meeting an Okefenokee alligator (also named George, or Georgette), imagining Faulkner's tennis game, and being swept up, sort of, in the filming of Nashville. His yarns, analyses, and flights of fancy transcend all standard shades of Red, Blue, and in between.
Long Time Leaving is a comic ode to American variety and also a droll assault on complacency, North and South - a glorious union of diverse pieces reshaped and expanded into an American classic.
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"Roy Blount is so foot-tappingly good that the North and the South will fight to claim him. This book can keep you sane." (Jacqueline Carey)
"Roy Blount is so funny, and he sounds like he's just talking, and the next thing you know he has tossed off an essay as elegant and intricately structured as a birdsong. His ear for American speech is better than anybody's." (Ian Frazier)
Will you listen to this?
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Not what I expected
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Long Time Leaving covers the South.
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Roy Blount also has a very special voice. Hearing his writings spoken by him adds an important dimension that's lacking from the printed page.
Insanely funny
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Unabridged edition, please
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His Friends Were Getting Most Concerned
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Mr. Blount’s frequent streams of consciousness were often hilarious, while also being educational.
I enjoyed learning about many authors, musicians, poets and other creative people who came from the South.
I think I understand the North vs. South historical rivalries a bit better now, including some of the language that differs between the two regions.
Throughout the book, what comes through most is Mr. Blount’s wit and what I believe is his curiousity about, and love for all people.
A very amusing and educational book!
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