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Title: Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood by Willie Morris ISBN: 0-916242-68-4 Publisher: Yoknapatawpha Pr Pub. Date: October, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Baseball, Football and the Yazoo City Witch
Comment: This was a great memoir about a "typical" southern boy's childhood. I wish Willie Morris had not died so young because I found his work so enjoyable, and it would have been wonderful to read even more of his writing.
I would not put Mr. Morris up on the same level as Mark Twain (and he probably would not want it either), but this book reminds me in a lot of ways of Tom Sawyer--a young boy's life on the Mississippi Delta. Everyone should experience these memories, whether in real time or vicariously.
He tells of his childhood in Yazoo City, Mississippi, with all his childhood friends, including Spit McGee (the forty's Huckleberry Finn). He recalls their baseball games, football games, hunting on the Delta with his father, practical jokes played on anyone and everyone. He recounts the story of the Witch of Yazoo and the broken chain. One of the best and most humorous of his stories is the tale of the haunted house and what the boys found in it one dark and stormy night.
I best remember in this book the chapters of a typical day in the life of a boy his age in Yazoo City--a day in the summer and a day in the fall. These are great vignettes and very poignant pulling in the reader to want to recall his or her own childhood memories.
This is a great memoir and can be enjoyed by all.
Rating: 5
Summary: Best Book I have Ever Read
Comment: This is one of the best books that I have ever read.Mr. Morrishas a beautiful writing style, and captures the beauty of the southperfectly.
Rating: 5
Summary: Willie done right
Comment: This was a great book ... I am from MS and Good Ol' Boy really makes you feel what it could have been like growing up in the Delta. If you dig Southern Lit, you won't be disappointed.
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Title: My Dog Skip by Willie Morris ISBN: 0679767223 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 30 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: My Cat Spit McGee by Willie Morris ISBN: 0375706933 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 14 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: North Toward Home by Willie Morris ISBN: 0375724605 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Terrains of the Heart and Other Essays on Home by Willie Morris ISBN: 0916242234 Publisher: Yoknapatawpha Pr Pub. Date: 01 October, 1981 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Taps: A Novel by Willie Morris ISBN: 0618219021 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 08 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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