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North Toward Home
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Morris vividly recalls the South of his childhood with all of its cruelty, grace, and foibles intact. "North Toward Home" is the perceptive story of the education of an observant and intelligent young man, and a gifted writer's keen observations of a country in transition.
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My Dog Skip
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A dog and his boy.
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The Courting of Marcus Dupree
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At the time of Marcus Duprees 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 ...
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New York Days
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In New York Days, the long-awaited sequel to the prize-winning North Toward Home, Willie Morris recalls his triumphant, exciting, and ultimately devastating years as the youngest ever editor-in-chief of Harper's, America's oldest magazine, when he was at the center of the nation's stunning cosmos of writing, publishing, politics, and the arts. It ...
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My Cat Spit McGee
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The author of MY DOG SKIP talks about his reluctant, if ultimately incontestable, affection for a cat. After marrying a cat-lover, Morris is forced to care for a feline who, in turn, gains his trust and affection, and who teaches some important lessons about feline nature.
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Bullet Bob Comes to Louisville: And Other Tales from a Baseball Life
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John Morris
With its superb balance of humor, behind-the-scenes insight, and sensitive portrayal, this book gives readers reason to laugh, cry, relate, and relax - and love baseball that much more.
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Taps
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Adolescent Swayze Barksdale learns a lot about love and death as he plays taps at the ever-increasing funerals for local soldiers killed in Korea. Willie Morris tracks Swayze's experiences, and those of some of his fellow townspeople, in this affectionate novel about life in a small Mississippi town.
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Last of the Southern Girls
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Carol Hollywell, a Scarlett O'Hara of the 1950s, sets Washington, D.C., on its ear. Willie Morris's cleverly executed novel (loosely based on a real-life figure) paints a devastatingly accurate portrait, not only of a power-hungry woman, but also of the society that feeds such hunger. Morris is the author of several books, including North Toward ...
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Good Old Boy
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Faulkner's Mississippi
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Willie Morris, Willam Eggleston
Revisit the complex fictional world of William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, in this rare perspective through text and photographs of the fallen world of Southern aristocracy--one in which readers will come to understand more clearly Faulkner's characters and places. 60 full-color photographs.
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Homecomings
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Willie Morris, William Dunlap (Illustrator)
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The Ghosts of Medgar Evers: A Tale of Race, Murder, Mississippi, and Hollywood
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Willie Morris
An account of the murder of civil rights activist Medgar Evers in Mississippi in 1963, and of the eventual conviction of Byron de la Beckwith for the crime in 1994. Morris pays particular attention to the efforts of white prosecuting attorney Bobby DeLaughter that led to the conviction the defiant de la Beckwith over three decades after the crime. ...
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Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood
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Willie Morris
The author's boyhood escapades in his hometown of Yazoo City, Mississippi.
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A Southern Album: Recollections of Some People & Places & Times Gone by
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Irwin Glusker (Editor)
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Conversations with Willie Morris
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Willie Morris, Jack Bales (Editor)
Among the interlocutors represented in this collection of 25 interviews with the longtime Harper's Magazine editor are Studs Terkel, Charlie Rose, and Leonard Lopate.
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Prayer for the Opening of the Little League Season
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Willie Morris, Barry Moser (Illustrator)
A narrative poem that celebrates Little League Baseball and all its participants--the players, the umpires, and the anxious parents. Color illustrations accompany the text.
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Yazoo: Integration in a Deep-Southern Town
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After All, It's Only a Game
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Willie Morris, Lynn G. Root (Illustrator)
Perhaps better than any other writer Willie Morris can evoke the fleeting era of placid southern summers and simple truths, a halcyon season before television imprisoned our lives. This collection of sports stories, a mixture of fiction and memoir, restores that evanescent time for an hour or so. Each story focuses locally upon details that figure ...
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Terrains of the Heart
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James Jones: A Friendship
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Willie Morris, a former editor of Harper's and a prolific author in his own right, gives us a finely tuned, funny, and heartrending elegy to his friend, James Jones, author of From Here to Eternity and The Thin Red Line.
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Good Old Boy and the Witch of Yazoo
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Terrains of the heart and other essays on home
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They Write Among Us: New Stories and Essays from the Best of Oxford Writers
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Jim Dees (Editor), Willie Morris (Foreword by), Dick Waterman (Photographer)
Here are new stories and essays from the best of Oxford writers.
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Night of the Old South Ball: And Other Essays and Fables
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Edwin M. Yoder, Willie Morris (Designed by)
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The South Today: 100 Years After Appomattox
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Willie Morris (Editor)
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