Download or read book Redneck Tales from South Alabama written by Doug Messick and published by . This book was released on 2001-10-01 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hillbilly Elegy written by J. D. Vance and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER IS NOW A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD AND STARRING AMY ADAMS, GLENN CLOSE, AND GABRIEL BASSO "You will not read a more important book about America this year."—The Economist "A riveting book."—The Wall Street Journal "Essential reading."—David Brooks, New York Times Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck. The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually one of their grandchildren would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that J.D.'s grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, never fully escaping the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. With piercing honesty, Vance shows how he himself still carries around the demons of his chaotic family history. A deeply moving memoir, with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.
Download or read book The Redneck Nightmare written by Isabel Machado dos Santos Wildberger and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Redneck Story Book written by Gary M. Roberts and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of humorous stories about the south and the peculiar way southerners got things done. The stories are taken from the author's own experiences growing up in south Georgia, and as the title infers, they have a tad bit of truth to them.
Download or read book Redneck Stories written by Rex Decker and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These tales are told basically how they really happened, as well as I can remember the facts. They were a lot more humorous while I was writing about them than I thought they were back then. Problems of a Redneck with Cows is set during that time in our lives when we worked hard and had tough times. Though it has a lot of humor, it shows how country folks can overcome big odds and that a family that stays bound to each other with love and faith in one another will overcome most anything. The other tale, Mothers Day Mules, is about two small mules that gave us more fun and excitement than we even thought about. My wife and family will never forget the enjoyment we had.
Download or read book My Southern Journey written by Rick Bragg and published by Liberty Street. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From celebrated New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Rick Bragg, comes a poignant and wryly funny collection of essays on life in the south. Keenly observed and written with his insightful and deadpan sense of humor, he explores enduring Southern truths about home, place, spirit, table, and the regions' varied geographies, including his native Alabama, Cajun country, and the Gulf Coast. Everything is explored, from regional obsessions from college football and fishing, to mayonnaise and spoonbread, to the simple beauty of a fish on the hook. Collected from over a decade of his writing, with many never-before-published essays written specifically for this edition, My Southern Journey is an entertaining and engaging read, especially for Southerners (or feel Southern at heart) and anyone who appreciates great writing.
Download or read book Tales from a Carolina Crazy written by GRIGSBY ARNETTE and published by Author House. This book was released on 2012-01-20 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his second book Grigsby has amassed a delightful collection of humorous short stories that takes us back through our youthful days of innocent pranks and rollicking fun with friends and acquaintances. TALES FROM A CAROLINA CRAZY covers experiences from childhood through college days and into adulthood. The adventure, humor, thrill of the chase and much more takes us across the United States, Canada as well as through the Middle and Far East. This collection of stories written from a Southerner's point of view will amuse, entertain and enlighten you. If you would like to find out what it was like to grow up in the South, travel across country and read about foreign adventures, then you'll certainly devour TALES FROM A CAROLINA CRAZY.
Download or read book Toilet Bowl Soup written by Mike Adams and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2010-08-27 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of short stories, Mike Adams tells some harsh tales of life in Southern Indiana! Tales of junky amputees, rabid beasts, sadistic rednecks, Satanism, and drug induced horror all mixed with plenty of booze and violence to keep you firmly planted on your throne.
Download or read book All American Redneck written by Matthew J. Ferrence and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2014-03-30 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In contemporary culture, the stereotypical trappings of “redneckism” have been appropriated for everything from movies like Smokey and the Bandit to comedy acts like Larry the Cable Guy. Even a recent president, George W. Bush, shunned his patrician pedigree in favor of cowboy “authenticity” to appeal to voters. Whether identified with hard work and patriotism or with narrow-minded bigotry, the Redneck and its variants have become firmly established in American narrative consciousness. This provocative book traces the emergence of the faux-Redneck within the context of literary and cultural studies. Examining the icon’s foundations in James Fenimore Cooper’s Natty Bumppo—“an ideal white man, free of the boundaries of civilization”—and the degraded rural poor of Erskine Caldwell’s Tobacco Road, Matthew Ferrence shows how Redneck stereotypes were further extended in Deliverance, both the novel and the film, and in a popular cycle of movies starring Burt Reynolds in the 1970s and ’80s, among other manifestations. As a contemporary cultural figure, the author argues, the Redneck represents no one in particular but offers a model of behavior and ideals for many. Most important, it has become a tool—reductive, confining, and (sometimes, almost) liberating—by which elite forces gather and maintain social and economic power. Those defying its boundaries, as the Dixie Chicks did when they criticized President Bush and the Iraq invasion, have done so at their own peril. Ferrence contends that a refocus of attention to the complex realities depicted in the writings of such authors as Silas House, Fred Chappell, Janisse Ray, and Trudier Harris can help dislodge persistent stereotypes and encourage more nuanced understandings of regional identity. In a cultural moment when so-called Reality Television has turned again toward popular images of rural Americans (as in, for example, Duck Dynasty and Moonshiners), All- American Redneck reveals the way in which such images have long been manipulated for particular social goals, almost always as a means to solidify the position of the powerful at the expense of the regional.
Download or read book Everybody s Got a Story written by Steven Stokes, and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection brimming with humor and wisdom, Everybodys Got a Story includes eight autobiographical vignettes from the life of Steven H. Stokes, MD. After his parents' divorce at age nine, a young Stokes goes to live with his grandparents on their farm in rural southern Alabama. It is this tight-knit community and quickly fading way of life that serves as the backdrop for many of the stories in this collection. Celebrating a time when small family farms, with their rows of peanuts, corn, and cotton, dotted the landscape, Stokes shows readers how life with his dysfunctional family teaches him to find humor in hardship and the will to succeed in the face of adversity. Through stories from his childhood, his service with the United States Marine Corps, his courtship and marriage to his wife, and his thirty-year career as a radiation oncologist, Stokes demonstrates how some of life's greatest gifts come in surprising events-and how infinitely precious life is, as well as the need to treasure relationships before we lose them. All proceeds from this book will be given to the Good Samaritan Cancer Fund to help people with cancer obtain pain medication and transportation.
Download or read book Tales from a Southern Madhouse written by Gale Marie Vanderpol and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-10-30 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Faulkner once said, "To understand the South one must be born in it." My goal is to bring a bit of my world into yours. A world full of wonder, laughter, guilt and imagination. And to bring these mad characters to life in their own magical way. After all, just like beauty, madness is in the eye of the beholder.
Download or read book Redneck Boy in the Promised Land written by Ben Jones and published by Crown. This book was released on 2008-06-03 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Redneck Boy in the Promised Land is Ben Jones’s hilarious, uplifting life story of escaping the rail yards and finding success in the unlikeliest places. As a child, Jones called a dingy railroad shack with no electricity or indoor plumbing home. An unabashed Southern redneck from a "likker drinkin’, hell-raisin’" family, Jones grew up in the depressed railroad docks outside of Portsmouth, Virginia, and spent most of his days dreaming about where the tracks out of town could take him. That he would go on to become a beloved television icon on The Dukes of Hazzard and a firebrand two-term Congressman is a story that no one could have ever seen coming . . . least of all ol’ "Cooter" himself. Written with naked honesty and wry humor, Redneck Boy in the Promised Land is one good ol’ boy’s remarkable tale of falling flat on his face, picking himself up, and finding his way to the American dream-while fighting for civil rights, the plight of the working class, "real" Southern culture, and the rights of rednecks everywhere. From the Hardcover edition.
Download or read book 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey written by Kathryn Tucker Windham and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of six Jeffrey ghost story books centers on Jeffrey's favorite 13 ghostly tales set in Alabama.
Download or read book Grandfather Tales written by Richard Chase and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only people who can tell these stories better than Richard Chase are the folks in North Carolina and Virginia who told them to him. These stories have been handed down for generations and have been enjoyed by grownups and children alike.
Download or read book Where I Come from written by Rick Bragg and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2020 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Copyright page.
Download or read book Save a Truck Ride a Redneck written by Molly Harper and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Molly Harper brings her signature “clever humor, snark, silliness, and endearing protagonists” (Booklist) to the charming small town of Lake Sackett, Georgia with the new Southern Eclectic series. Carl and Marianne were high school sweethearts, loving the way only teenagers can—with no thought to logic or pride, just a bone-headed, optimistic frenzy of unicorns and hormones. That was all they needed. Or so Carl thought. Scared of being stuck in Lake Sackett, Georgia, like so many of her friends—without a real shot at a future or achieving her own dreams—Marianne panicked and bolted to college after stomping Carl’s heart into the high grass. But when she returns to Lake Sackett for the summer with her family after years away, she and Carl are drawn together like moths to a flame. As they rekindle their old romance and remember what it was like to be in love, they have to wonder: is this, finally, their real chance at happiness? Perfect for fans of Kristan Higgins and Amy E. Reichert, this warmhearted and witty love story introduces Molly Harper’s new Southern Eclectic series set in the small town of Lake Sackett, Georgia. This story about second chances proves that “Molly Harper never lets the reader down with her delightfully entertaining stories. Humor, emotions, and romance are cleverly matched, and her likable characters are most appealing” (SingleTitles).
Download or read book Tales of the Al Azif written by Matthew Davenport and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2019-03-22 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Necronomicon was not the first book by H.P. Lovecraft to terrify readers with tales of dark and twisted horrors from beyond. No, the Al-Azif, or Book of the Insect, is the first work that told mankind of Cthulhu, Azathoth, and other terrors. Indeed, it was the book that inspired "The Mad Arab" Abdul Al-Hazred to write its more famous successor. Join us for a collection of novellas written by some of the best Neo-Lovecraftian authors today: Matthew Davenport (Andrew Doran, The Trials of Obed Marsh), David Hambling (Harry Stubbs, The Dulwich Horror), David J. West (Porter Rockwell, Redneck Eldritch), David Niall Wilson (The Call of Distant Shores), and C.T. Phipps (Cthulhu Armageddon) in telling stories of this mysterious book. Find out where the nightmares began!
