Be Sweet: A Conditional Love Story

Blount, Roy, Jr.

ISBN 10: 0375403248 ISBN 13: 9780375403248

Verlag: Random House, 1998

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An entertaining memoir by the author of Crackers and First Hubby reflects on the life and times of a Georgia boy turned New York wit, reflecting on the three profound riddles that have had a formative impact on his world. Read by Roy Blount, Jr. Simultaneous.

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/ 3 hours
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In the AudioBook his laughing and loving readers have been waiting for, our generation's master of full-hearted humor lays open the soul of his life story.  Listen to the man tell his own story.

Roy Blount Jr.--Georgia boy turned New York wit, lover of baseball and interesting women, bumbling adventurer, literary lion, salty-limerick virtuoso and impassioned father--journeys into the past and his psyche (also all the way to China, sixty feet underwater and to various Manhattan hot spots) in search of the answers to three riddles that have haunted him intimately:

One: the riddle of "the family curse." Two: the riddle of what drives him (or anyone) to be funny. Three: the riddle of what so cruelly tangled his unseverable bond with the beguiling, beaten orphan girl who became the impossible mother who raised him to Be Sweet.

Roy Blount's memoir is sardonic and sentimental, hilarious and

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• Verlag: Random House
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0375403248
• ISBN 13: 9780375403248
• Einband: Casete de audio