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Escape velocity : a Charles Portis miscellany / edited and with an introduction by Jay Jennings ; cover art and illustrations by Mike Reddy.
Van Pelt Library PS3566.O663 A6 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Portis, Charles.
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections. 2012
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Portis, Charles--Appreciation.
- Portis, Charles.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Little Rock, Ark. : Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, [2012]
- Contents:
- Elected newspaper reporting and writing. Memphis commercial appeal (1958)
- Arkansas gazette (1959-1960)
- New York herald tribune (1960-1964)
- General assignment
- Rights reporting
- London bureau
- Travels
- That new sound from Nashville
- An auto odyssey through darkest Baja
- The forgotten river
- Motel life, lower reaches
- Short stories. Your action line
- Nights can turn cool in Viborra
- I don't talk service no more
- The wind bloweth where it listeth
- Memoir. Combinations of Jacksons
- Drama. Delray's new moon
- Epilogue. interview[s]
- Gazette project interview (by Roy Reed)
- Tributes. Comedy in earnest (by Roy Blount Jr.)
- Like Cormac McCarthy, but funny (by Ed Park)
- Our least-known great novelist (by Ron Rosenbaum)
- Afterword to True grit (by Donna Tartt)
- The book that changed my life: Gringos (by Wells Tower).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781935106500
- 1935106503
- OCLC:
- 793911008
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