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Scorekeeping : essays from home / Bob Cowser, Jr.
LIBRA CT275.C8565 A3 2006
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cowser, Bob.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cowser, Bob--Childhood and youth.
- Cowser, Bob.
- Tennessee--Biography.
- Tennessee.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 109 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, [2006]
- Summary:
- In 1970, "Esquire" named the rural West Tennessee college town of Martin as one of the nine happy towns left in the United States. Bob Cowser Jr. offers a dissenting opinion on this assessment of the bucolic environs of his youth in his collection of forthright reflections on boyhood in Martin and his experiences in the other locations (New Orleans; Lincoln, NE; and Canton, NY) that have constituted "home." Ranging in tone from confessional and contemplative to candid and comic, the stories in "Scorekeeping" conjoin to form an exceptional portrait of smalltown life as lived by the son of English professors with an unflinching eye and creative wit.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Answers May Vary 1
- Scorekeeping 4
- Hiatus 20
- Wild Begins Here 36
- One Good Barbeque Sandwich Away 43
- The Heart Is a Dark Forest 50
- Good Turns 59
- Capital City 74
- (Never) Going Back to My Old School 84
- My Double, My Brother 94
- Epilogue: By a Song 106.
- ISBN:
- 1570036527
- 1570036535
- OCLC:
- 69791966
- Publisher Number:
- 9781570036521
- 9781570036538
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