Conversations with Willie Morris - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conversations with Willie Morris write by Willie Morris. This book was released on 2000. Conversations with Willie Morris available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this first collection of interviews and profiles devoted to author Willie Morris, Bales compiles 25 fascinating and incisive conversations (some never before published) with a man who confronted the turbulent issues of his generation.
The Courting of Marcus Dupree
The Courting of Marcus Dupree - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Courting of Marcus Dupree write by Willie Morris. This book was released on 2011-02-11. The Courting of Marcus Dupree available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At the time of Marcus Dupree's birth, when Deep South racism was about to crest and shatter against the Civil Rights Movement, Willie Morris journeyed north in a circular transit peculiar to southern writers. His memoir of those years, North Toward Home, became a modern classic. In The Courting of Marcus Dupree he turned again home to Mississippi to write about the small town of Philadelphia and its favorite son, a black high-school quarterback. In Marcus Dupree, Morris found a living emblem of that baroque strain in the American character called "southern." Beginning on the summer practice fields, Morris follows Marcus Dupree through each game of his senior varsity year. He talks with the Dupree family, the college recruiters, the coach and the school principal, some of the teachers and townspeople, and, of course, with the young man himself. As the season progresses and the seventeen-year-old Dupree attracts a degree of national attention to Philadelphia neither known nor endured since "the Troubles" of the early sixties, these conversations take on a wider significance. Willie Morris has created more than a spectator's journal. He writes here of his repatriation to a land and a people who have recovered something that fear and misdirected loyalties had once eclipsed. The result is a fascinating, unusual, and even topical work that tells a story richer than its apparent subject, for it brings the whole of the eighties South, with all its distinctive resonances, to life.
Shifting Interludes: Selected Essays
Shifting Interludes: Selected Essays - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shifting Interludes: Selected Essays write by . This book was released on . Shifting Interludes: Selected Essays available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of eloquent, sometimes hard-hitting essays by one of the South's most beloved writers covers forty years in Morris's career as a journalist and columnist. (Literature)
The Last Resort
The Last Resort - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Last Resort write by Norma Watkins. This book was released on 2011-05-09. The Last Resort available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Raised under the racial segregation that kept her family's southern country hotel afloat, Norma Watkins grows up listening at doors, trying to penetrate the secrets and silences of the black help and of her parents' marriage. Groomed to be an ornament to white patriarchy, she sees herself failing at the ideal of becoming a southern lady. The Last Resort, her compelling memoir, begins in childhood at Allison's Wells, a popular Mississippi spa for proper white people, run by her aunt. Life at the rambling hotel seems like paradise. Yet young Norma wonders at a caste system that has colored people cooking every meal while forbidding their sitting with whites to eat. Once integration is court-mandated, her beloved father becomes a stalwart captain in defense of Jim Crow as a counselor to fiery, segregationist Governor Ross Barnett. His daughter flounders, looking for escape. A fine house, wonderful children, and a successful husband do not compensate for the shock of Mississippi's brutal response to change, daily made manifest by the men in her home. A sexually bleak marriage only emphasizes a growing emotional emptiness. When a civil rights lawyer offers love and escape, does a good southern lady dare leave her home state and closed society behind? With humor and heartbreak, The Last Resort conveys at once the idyllic charm and the impossible compromises of a lost way of life.
Taps
Taps - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Taps write by Willie Morris. This book was released on 2001. Taps available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The final work by one of America's most beloved authors, "Taps" returns to the stretch of southern delta that Willie Morris made famous with his award-winning classic "North Toward Home" and the enormously popular tales of his inimitable dog Skip.
