Southern Selves: From Mark Twain and Eudora Welty to Maya Angelou and Kaye Gibbons, A Collection of Autobiographical Writing Entertainment_Gift_Guide it recalls The English Patient

it recalls The English Patient in its mix of emotional intimacy and sweeping landscape

The speeches collected in this volume—one or more for each of the forty-six elected American presidents—are historical documents

the indignities of American retirement

it was only ten years ago when members of the Royal League of Dreamslingers caused the Great Outburst—a tragedy that killed hundreds of people

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Southern Selves: From Mark Twain and Eudora Welty to Maya Angelou and Kaye Gibbons, A Collection of Autobiographical Writing Entertainment_Gift_Guide it recalls The English PatientThe memoirist seek to capture not just a self but an entire world, and in this marvelous anthology thirty one of the South's finest writerswriters like Kaye Gibbons and Reynolds Price, Eudora Welty and Harry Crews, Richard Wright and Dorothy Allisonmake their intensely personal contributions to a vibrant collective picture of southern life. In the hands of these superb artists, the South's rich tradition of storytelling is brilliantly revealed.