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Overview
At once an intimate personal journey and an incisive social history, South to a Very Old Place fuses the experience of novelist and critic Albert Murray on an odyssey through the South of the early seventies with his remembrances of growing up there in the twenties and thirties.Editorials
Toni Morrison
His perceptions are firmy based in the blues idiom, and it is black music no less than literary criticism and historical analysis which gives his work its authenticity, its emotional vigor, and its tenacious hold on the intellect...[It] destroys some fashionable socio-political interpretations of growing up black. -- The New York Times Book ReviewBook Details
Published
June 30, 1997
Publisher
New York : Modern Library, 1995.
Pages
294
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780679601470