Synopsis This is a collection of 37 short vignettes of strange and charming characters encountered by Bailey White on travels ranging from the Florida Everglades to northern Vermont. White is the author of "Mama Makes Up Her Mind" as well as a first-grade teacher and NPR commentator.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1995-04-24 |
| Size | | Height: | 8.8 in | | Width: | 5.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 14.4 oz |
Publisher's Note The author of the best-selling Mama Makes Up Her Mind offers a new collection of funny stories about Southern characters, places, and goings-on, from leaky mansions to fishing camps to one-room schoolhouses. 200,000 first printing. Tour.
Industry Reviews "Bailey White's real-life fables teeter tragicomically between fierce dignity and affliction....[her] voice is orginal, innocent yet subversive." New York Times Book Review - Diane McWhorter
"White clearly knows the business of telling a ripping good tale... Like Truman Capote at his finest, she is a writer with a true voice, with a sense of her history, her place, and her people." Schappell
"She's done it again, [with] a collection of essays that will leave readers laughing musing, and maybe even shedding a tear.... Irresistible...hilarious... Bailey White's infectious appeal rises from her ability to approach both the zany and the mundane with generous humor and tender humanity. For that alone, check-in is worth the price at her Starlite Motel." Schappell
"White's ability to dramatize seems so natural it's like a sixth sense, and her ear for Southern vernacular and her eye for revealing imagery make her essays the triumph they are... Read silently or aloud, all of them delight." Schappell
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