Due South: Dispatches from Down Home
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.14 (580 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0375757678 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 172 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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The spirit of the deep south! As a native of Jackson, MS I am especially fond of this book. Mr. Brunner has written a wonderful, funny book that I would recommend to anyone interested in southern humor.. Down Home Southern Charm Done Up Right R. Scott Brunner, ocassional commentator on Public Radio in Mississippi and NPR's 'All Things Considered' has written this Southern-fried ditty of humor and warm reminiscenes. 'Due South: Dispatches from Down Home' offers insight on life, family, relationship in Southern culture and languag. Dispatches from the south I still miss after 27 years I picked up this book one day and decided to give it a read because of the Fannie Flagg blurb on the front. What a treat! R. Scott Brunner has pulled together a collection of southern life that brings out the best, the rediculous and the belovedand a few things we try to keep hidden. From t
From Publishers Weekly Fans of National Public Radio's All Things Considered will recognize the author of these short essays celebrating life below the Mason-Dixon line. Brunner, who grew up in rural Alabama, proudly remains a Southerner, living in urban Brandon, Miss., where he is vice-president of the Mississippi Association of Realtors. There's nothing hard-hitting or penetrating in this collection, just some sweet memories and fond recreations of regional idiosyncrasy. Although Brunner deals with many parts of his regional e
Now in paperback — the enormously popular essays Fannie Flagg called “as charming and welcome as an early spring down home.”