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Sitting up with the dead : a storied journey through the American South / Pamela Petro.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Petro, Pamela, 1960-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tales--Southern States.
- Tales.
- Storytellers.
- Southern States.
- Storytellers--Southern States--Interviews.
- Southern States--Social life and customs.
- Manners and customs.
- Southern States--Description and travel.
- Genre:
- Interviews.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 414 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First North American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Arcade Pub. : Distributed by AOL Time Warner Book Group, 2002.
- Summary:
- A writer of irrepressible spirit takes readers on a disarming, inspired road trip through the South to uncover some of America's most talented and colorful storytellers, their tales, and the lush land that links them.
- Contents:
- First Journey
- Akbar's Tale 3
- Tar Baby 9
- Colonel Rod's Tale 20
- The Mule Egg 27
- Vickie's Tale 34
- Rosehill's Tale 48
- The Kudzu's Tale 57
- Grandfather Creates Snake 62
- Orville's Tale 70
- Jack and the Varmints 80
- David's Tale 92
- Ross and Anna 98
- Second Journey
- Veronica's Tale 109
- A Polar Bear's Bar-Be-Cue 110
- Taily Po 119
- Kwame's Tale 128
- The Story of the Girl and the Fish 132
- Alice's Tale 139
- Cornelia's Tale 158
- The Plat-Eye 160
- Fouchena's Tale 178
- The Flying Africans 189
- Minerva's Tale 191
- Tom's Tale 200
- The Story of Lavinia Fisher 205
- Third Journey
- Ray's Tale 215
- Fourth Journey
- Ollie's Tale 237
- Kathryn's Tale 248
- The Grandfather Tales 254
- David Joe's Tale 266
- The Peddler Man 269
- Karen's Tale 277
- Rose and Charlie 289
- The Tale of the Farmer's Smart Daughter 296
- Oyo's Tale 312
- Mitch and Carla's Tale 318
- How My Grandma was Marked 326
- Wicked John 327
- The Bell Witch's Tale 341
- Annie's Tale 350
- Shug 358
- My First Experience with a Flush Commode 360
- Angela's Tale 363
- Rose Anne's Tale 376
- The Song in the Mist 387
- Granny Griffin's Tale 400
- The Dead Man 401.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Hammersmith, London : Flamingo, 2001.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 1559706120
- OCLC:
- 48892257
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