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  • Shifting Interludes
    Willie Morris
    In the course of his career Willie Morris (1934-1999) attained national prominence as a journalist, editor, nonfiction writer, novelist, memoirist, and news commentator. As this eloquent book reveals, he was also a master essayist whose gift was in crafting short compositions.Shifting Interludes, an anthology that spans his career of forty years, includes pieces he wrote for th...
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    35,64 €

  • Conversations with Willie Morris
    Willie Morris
    'I’ve been asked all over America . . . why Mississippi is so distinctive. You know, we have our failings, but we’re coming along all right. But as to why Mississippi is so artistic and athletic I always say there is something in the quality of two things: memory . . . and the sour-mash bourbon.' During the three decades since the London Sunday Times trumpeted North Toward Home...
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    42,92 €

  • New York Days
    Willie Morris
    In New York Days, the long-awaited sequel to the prize-winning North Toward Home, Willie Morris recalls his triumphant, exciting, and ultimately devastating years as the youngest ever editor-in-chief of Harper’s, America’s oldest magazine, when he was at the center of the nation’s stunning cosmos of writing, publishing, politics, and the arts. It was the 1960s, when New York Ci...
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    21,40 €

  • Last of the Southern Girls
    Willie Morris
    Carol Hollywell is beautiful, smart, elegant, and charming. A debutante from De Soto Point, Arkansas, and a recent graduate of Ole Miss, she is heir to a good southern name and a small southern fortune. She knows what she wants and, more important, knows how to get it. She is, in other words, the prototypical southern belle, a Scarlett O'Hara for the 1950s, and when she mov...
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    35,46 €

  • The Courting of Marcus Dupree
    Willie Morris
    At the time of Marcus Dupree’s birth, when Deep South racism was about to crest and shatter against the Civil Rights Movement, Willie Morris journeyed north in a circular transit peculiar to southern writers. His memoir of those years, North Toward Home, became a modern classic. In The Courting of Marcus Dupree he turned again home to Mississippi to write about the small town o...
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    41,96 €