Growing Up Southern: Stories from the Deep South

Fans of O. Victor Miller will delight in this latest collection of short stories. A retired English professor from South Georgia, he shares tales of growing up on the Flint River in the Deep South. Early Praise for Growing Up Southern In Growing Up Southern, the storytelling is so good you can hear the page speaking. Vic Miller’s use of the word “Nome” for “No Ma’am” tells you that he hears language like a bat hears bugs. Here’s a literary artist delivering a very large hunk from one particular South: Albany, Georgia—and one particular condition: boyhood. You intuit that Miller hears Faulkner, Voltaire, Groucho, Psalms, and Job, all sifted through his own laid-back, hell-bent, heavenly-sent self. — Clyde Edgerton, author of The Floatplane Notebooks Being a white Southern man is complicated and hard to explain. What is there to love about it? What is there to be proud of? Growing Up Southern will help you understand all that and make it easy and fun to talk about with your friends. It will make you laugh and cry in such quick succession you won’t know where the tears are coming from. It is so beautifully written that you’ll read something in the day, think about it as you fall asleep, and turn on the light at 3 a.m. just for the pleasure of reading it again. — Bailey White, author and NPR commentator Part Harry Crews and part Indiana Jones, Vic Miller has a hard thumb on the wrist of rural Georgia. These essays are fun, smart, and revelatory. What a great book. — George Singleton—author of The Curious Lives of Nonprofit Martyrs
ASIN: B0DC5HP5MJ
VSKU: BVV.B0DC5HP5MJ.VG
Condition: Very Good
Author/Artist:Miller, O. Victor
Binding: Hardcover
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Condition Notes: Book has little sign of wear or use