Growing Up in the South: An Anthology of Modern Southern Literature
by Suzanne Whitmore Jones (Editor)
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Collects stories by twenty-four writers from the American South, including William Faulkner, Richard Wright, and Flannery O'Connor, arranged in four themes: southern places, families, communities, and traditions.Tags
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Interesting collection, including unfamiliar passages from familiar authors plus a few new ones I'd not met before. This sampling will definitely motivate me to read some of their other works.
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Suzanne W. Jones is an associate professor of English at the University of Richmond in Virginia. She is the editor of another collection of stories, "Growing Up in the South: An Anthology of Modern Southern Literature," and a collection of essays, "Writing the Woman Artist." Jones has published articles on Twentieth-century American fiction, women show more writers, and the literature of the South. Jones lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- For my family and the friends I grew up with in Surry, Virginia.
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- Fiction and Literature
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- 813.0108975 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English By type Short fiction By Region Southeastern U.S.
- LCC
- PS551 .G76 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Collections of American literature By region South
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