Back Home: Journeys Through Mobile [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

Hoffman, Roy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081735431X ISBN 13: 9780817354312

Verlag: The University of Alabama Press, 2007

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Hoffman's work transcends region while celebrating it. He writes about what makes Mobile and its inhabitants... a rarity. Belonging on the same shelf as Rick Bragg's Somebody Told Me and Larry McMurtry's Roads, this is recommended for all libraries. - Library Journal ""Hoffman sees Mobile with the wisdom of one who has lived, learned, and worked elsewhere but finds that his home is, after all, a special place of warmth and humanity, a place where the human dimension defines the scale of things, where time does not stand still but is not forgotten, a place for people. Read this book and take a journey with a master storyteller and student of human nature."" - Alabania Review ""These stories were written to explore what Hoffman calls a sense of place and they eloquently answer the question upon his return: What's left to tell me where I am?"" - Publishers Weekly ""In an age of chain newspapers and nomadic reporters who learn new cities every 18 months, Back Home is a wonderful throwback to the heyday of newsroom giants like Chicago's Mike Royko and New York's Jimmy Breslin, who seemed to know every block of the city and everyone who lived there.... Eloquent, affectionate, often profound, this is a connoisseur's collection that shows why the best newspaper writing deserves a far better fate than landfills."" - Hal Crowther, author of Cathedrals of Kudzu

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Like a photo album, ""Back Home"" presents close-up portraits of everyday places and ordinary people. There are meditations on downtown Mobile, where Roy Hoffman's grandparents arrived as immigrants a century ago; the waterfront where lonshoremen labor and shrimpers work their nets; the back roads leading to obscure but intriguing destinations. Hoffman records local people telling their own tales of race relations, sports, agriculture, and Mardi Gras celebrations. Fishermen, baseball players, bakers, authors, political figures - a strikingly diverse population walks across the stage of ""Back Home"".. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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• Verlag: The University of Alabama Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 081735431X
• ISBN 13: 9780817354312
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400