Another Woman's Treasure

✍ Scribed by J B Lynn

• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 101 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ASIN: B0852TW8QJ

✦ Synopsis

Southern Bound represents a running conversation on books, writers and literary travel written for the Mobile Press-Register Books page from 1995 to 2011 by John S. Sledge. The collection includes more than 100 of the best pieces culled from Sledge's total output of approximately 700 columns. Numerous classic authors are celebrated in these pages, including Homer, Plato, Gibbon, Melville, Proust, Conrad, Cather and Steinbeck, as well as modern writers such as Walter Edgar, Tom Franklin and Eugene Walter. While some of the essays are relatively straightforward book reviews, others present meditative and deeply personal perspectives on the author's literary experiences such as serving on the jury in the play version To Kill a Mockingbird; spending the night alone in a Jesuit college library's venerable stacks; rambling through funky New Orleans bookshops; talking to Square Books owner Richard Howarth while overlooking the Oxford, Mississippi courthouse; rereading Treasure Island on the shores of Mobile Bay and remembering a beloved father's favorite books. Engaging and spirited, Southern Bound represents the critical art at its most accessible, and will prove entertaining fare for anyone who loves the written word.;Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: For the Love of Books -- The South -- Essence of the South Remains Hard to Define -- Slaves in the Family -- Ball's Book Strikes Personal Chord with Historian -- Rivers of History -- Bumper Crop of Poems Celebrates Life on the Land -- Faulkner's "Blood and Thunder" Novel Endures -- Oprah Makes Brave, Bold Choice with Faulkner -- Liuzzo Biographer Brings a Sense of Justice to Topic -- South Carolina's Charms Preserved in Encyclopedia -- Young Woman's Diaries Basis of Wonderful Book -- Painter Mary Whyte Shows Keen Eye for Laborers in Working South -- The Civil War -- Slaves' Memories Offer Harrowing Accounts of War -- LSU Press Revives Story of Army of Tennessee -- Lee's True Legacy beyond Latest Biographer -- Pelham's Valor Shines in Maxwell's Perfect Lion -- Eye of the Storm: Union Soldier's Illustrated Memoir Confirms Civil War Was Tragedy for All -- Co. Aytch a Direct Link to Army in Gray -- Chance Discovery Reveals Details of Mobile Campaign -- Chaffin Cuts Through to Clear View of Hunley -- Poetry Collection from out of the Blue and Gray -- Rosen Invigorates Civil War Setting -- The Gulf Coast Renaissance -- Year in Greece Yields Book for Native Mobilian -- Our Voice of Reason -- Author Finds Inspiration in Writer Eugene Walter -- Store Specializes in Antique Volumes -- Hollon's The God File Deserves National Attention -- Black Belt Chronicles Richly Deserve Recognition -- Mobile Native Knight a Fast-Rising Literary Star -- Breech a Violent, Dark Tale from Franklin -- Scully's In the Hope of Rising Again a Gem -- Chicken Dreaming Corn: Family Tales Spur Captivating Novel of Mobile -- Emotional Exploration of a Deplorable Event -- Groom Takes Big Step with Vicksburg -- Architecture -- How Did Our Gardens Grow? Famously, It Seems.