Travels with George in search of Ben Hur and other meanderings / Paul Ruffin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ruffin, Paul.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ruffin, Paul--Anecdotes.

Ruffin, Paul.

National characteristics, American--Humor.

National characteristics, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (185 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Every tale is vibrantly alive with the sincere voice, crisp details, bold images, and distinctive dialogue that readers have come to relish in Ruffin's myriad writings.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication Page

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Things Literary, More or Less

Travels with George in Search of Ben Hur

The Mosquito

The Lady with the Quick Simile

Workshopping a Cowboy Poem

Was Emily Mad or Merely Angry?

On the Death of Edgar Allan Poe

Making Preparations for the Tour

The Girl in the Clean, Well-Lighted Place

Explaining a Poem to a Student

Some Rare and Unusual Books

Tales from Kentucky Lawyers

The Boy who Spoke in Hymns

Making a Dam in Segovia

Just Thinking about Shit

To San Juan and Back: Ah, Youth!

On Likker and Guns

Drinking: A Truncated History

Rats!

The Bowhunter Asks for My Bladder

The Day the Sharpshooter Killed Something he didn't Intend to

Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho, Off to the Gun Show we Go...

From "Growing Up in Mississippi Poor and White but not Quite Trash" (An As-Yet-Unpublished Memoir)

Trains: The Beginning of a Lifelong Quest for Understanding

Learning about Sex.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9786613622822

9781280592997

1280592990

9781611171211

1611171210

OCLC:

794619951