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Terrains of the Heart and Other Essays on Home

2 reviews
Willie Morris

Yoknapatawpha Press, 1981

This is a book to be read and re-read, savored and enjoyed.
When "Terrains of the Heart" first appeared in 1981, the RICHMOND NEWS LEADER wrote, "The temptation will be strong to take 'Terrains of the Heart' in huge gulps. Resist it, for this is a book to savor, to reflect on, to return to over the years when home is nearby, or when the very idea of it seems far, far away." The author Willie Morris, who passed away Aug. 2, 1999, is still very much with ...

Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood

7 reviews
Willie Morris

Yoknapatawpha Press, 2000

Baseball, Football and the Yazoo City Witch
This was a great memoir about a "typical" southern boy's childhood. I wish Willie Morris had not died so young because I found his work so enjoyable, and it would have been wonderful to read even more of his writing. I would not put Mr. Morris up on the same level as Mark Twain (and he probably would not want it either), but this book reminds me in a lot of ways of Tom Sawyer--a young boy's ...

New York Days

1 review
Willie Morris

Back Bay Books, 1994

Good Ole Southern Boy Meets NYC Literati
Okay, in reality Mr. Morris was, what, 26 -- and the youngest person to hold the position of Editor at Harper's? Anyway, a fascinating look at the NY literary world during the mid to late 60's. Morris was witness to one of the greatest gatherings of young and gifted writers ever assembled in the modern era. The book starts with the professional steps Morris took prior to accepting the ...

My Dog Skip

35 reviews
Willie Morris

Vintage, 1996

Beautifully Told
Willie Morris has recounted the life of not just a boyhood pet, but a dear and close friend. The Story of Skip's life as told by his owner is full of mythic adventures of childhood. Where every new day was full of joy and wonder. Morris' storytelling brings the dog, his family and the lush southern landscape into full and brilliant view. When you read My Dog Skip you can just feel how much this ...

Taps: A Novel

14 reviews
Willie Morris

Houghton Mifflin, 2001

A look into the soul of Willie Morris
Taps flows at a languid pace, giving the reader ample time to see, and hear, and smell the South of the Mississippi Delta, and to track the protagonist's very painful process of growing up. This is the fourth book I have read by Willie Morris, along with Larry King's fine memoir to him. King argues that Taps may be the truest, most unvarnished account of Morris' life, particularly when compared ...

The Last of the Southern Girls (Voices of the South)

1 review
Willie Morris

Louisiana State University Press, 1994

Power, Politics, and Polite Society
In "The Last of The Southern Girls", William Morris sets himself up for the ambitious task of combining the contradictions and complications of life in our Nation's capital with the wiles and trials of Southern feminity. As a Southern girl who moved to Washington, D.C. directly follwing graduation, I believe Morris accurately depicts the lovely and despicable traits of two cultures where ...

My Cat Spit McGee

54 reviews
Willie Morris

Vintage, 2000

I Love Spit McGee!
I absolutely loved this little book! I saw the movie, "My Dog Skip" and was interested in reading the actual book and came across Spit and decided to buy both! I am a cat lover; have been all my life. It was really neat to read about Willie's journey into the cat world! Willie Morris' nostalgic writing style and how he learns to appreciate the uniqueness and quirky nature of the cat leaves ...

North Toward Home

11 reviews
Willie Morris

Vintage, 2000

If only he had lived to tell us more
Like a lot of other readers, I first became aware of Willie Morris when I read "My Dog Skip." I followed that up with the lesser known, but equally enjoyable, "My Cat Spit McGee" (in which Morris, an avowed dog lover and cat hater, comes to love a cat). But for me, his most brilliant work has got to be "North Toward Home," which I did not discover until after he died in 1999. What is it about ...

The Courting of Marcus Dupree

10 reviews
Willie Morris

University Press of Mississippi, 1992

A great read even if you are not a football fan
As an OU fan and a person who remember Marcus Dupree light up Norman during his brief time, I was very excited to have a little bit more background on this fascinating person. The book hits several different topics. Obviously his recruitment of many football schools at times take center stage. But much of the book also discusses the effect of a black athlete becoming a state hero in Mississippi ...

My Mississippi

2 reviews
Willie Morris

University Press of Mississippi, 2000

My Mississippi--Disturbingly Beautiful
I agree with Jim Frazier that this book is worth the read. This is a compelling portrait of a wickedly alluring slice of North America, replete with "boogeymen" and victims, deep wounds in the psyche of our great country begging to be healed. Scathingly simplistic photographs add to the feeling of having enjoyed a piece of cake, even though the cook forgot to frost it.Yes, folks, strange fruit ...

Ghosts of Medgar Evers, The: A Tale of Race, Murder, Mississippi, and Hollywood

4 reviews
Willie Morris

Random House, 1998

Great man!
Medgar Evers was a great man! If Martin Luther King hadn't been born, Evers would have been the one to change it all!

Faulkner's Mississippi

1 review
Willie Morris

Oxmoor House, 1990

The Best of Both Worlds
Faulkner's Mississippi With excerpts from Sanctuary, The Faulkner Reader, As I Lay Dying, The Unvanquished, Light in August, Essays, Go Down, Moses; Absalom, Absalom!; and the exceptional writing style of editor/novelist Willie Morris, this work reveals the textures of Faulkner's Mississippi--cultural, linguistic, and social--making an exceptional commentary on southern life. Morris ...

Shifting Interludes: Selected Essays

1 review
Willie Morris

University Press of Mississippi, 2002

shifting interludes
Jack Bales has done it! His "Shifting Interludes", is a masterpiece, a grand compulation of Willie Morris'essays. Mr. Bales' talent and ability has proven itself and is only equaled by Willie Morris' skill in the form of the essay. I would recommend this whole heartedly to any one who lived through the turbulent times Willie Morris writes of, or who simply enjoys fine reading and craftsmanshift ...

Conversations With Willie Morris (Literary Conversations Series)

1 review

University Press of Mississippi, 2000

"Good to be on your show again, Leonard."
As part of the legendary "Literary Conversations Series" this one falls a few notches below the standard set by the volumes on Steinbeck, Anais Nin, abd Ishmael Reed, to say nothing of the magnificent Gore Vidal book that Mississippi brought out a year or so. Now there's a man who knows how to give a good interview. Not that this is the fault of the editor, Jack Bales, who seems to care ...

Life on the Mississippi (1883) (Oxford Mark Twain)

16 reviews
Mark Twain

Oxford University Press, USA, 1996

One of Twainýs Greatest!
This book--at times disjointed, rambling, self-referential, and irreverent--is decades ahead of its time. It's an interdisciplinarian's dream as Twain takes on economics, geography, politics, ancient and contemporary history, and folklore with equal ease. Mostly though, one appreciates his knack for exaggeration, the tall tale, and the outright lie. It's a triumph of tone, as he lets you in on ...

JAMES JONES:A FRIENDSHIP: A Friendship

1 review
Willie Morris

University of Illinois Press, 1999

A real mans friendship.
This book was the basis for the excellent film "A soldiers daughter never cries". The writing is fine and gentle, Morris is a scholarly man with a deft comic touch. The author and his friend James Jones belong square in the American "geography of masculinity" literary genre, peopled by the likes of Jim Harrison. If you enjoyed "Legends of the Fall" you will enjoy this for different but similar ...

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