Georgia Bottoms

Author : Mark Childress
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316121965

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Georgia Bottoms by Mark Childress Pdf

Georgia Bottoms is known in her small community of Six Points, Alabama, as a beautiful, well-to-do, and devoutly Baptist Southern belle. Nobody realizes that the family fortune has long since disappeared, and a determinedly single woman like Georgia needs an alternative, and discreet, means of income. In Georgia's case it is six well-heeled lovers -- one for each day of the week, with Mondays off -- none of whom knows about the others. But when the married preacher who has been coming to call (Saturdays) decides to confess their affair in front of the whole congregation, Georgia must take drastic measures to stop him. In George Bottoms, Mark Childress proves once again his unmistakable skill for combining the hilarious and the absurd to reveal the inner workings of the rebellious human heart.

Author : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Louisville District
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Dredging
ISBN : IND:30000097686707

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Kentucky River Navigation Project by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Louisville District Pdf

Author : Ed Piacentino
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781617037696

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Southern Frontier Humor by Ed Piacentino Pdf

Since its inception in the early 1830s, southern frontier humor (also known as the humor of the Old Southwest) has had enduring appeal. The onset of the new millennium precipitated an impressive rejuvenation of scholarly interest. Southern Frontier Humor: New Approaches represents the next step in this revival, providing a series of essays with fresh perspectives and contexts. First, the book shows the importance of Henry Junius Nott, a virtually unknown and forgotten writer who mined many of the principal subjects, themes, tropes, and character types associated with southern frontier humor, followed by an essay addressing how this humor genre and its ideological impact helped to stimulate a national cultural revolution. Several essays focus on the genre’s legacy to the post-Civil War era, exploring intersections between southern frontier humor and southern local color writers—Joel Chandler Harris, Charles W. Chesnutt, and Sherwood Bonner. Mark Twain’s African American dialect piece “A True Story,” though employing some of the conventions of southern frontier humor, is reexamined as a transitional text, showing his shift to broader concerns, particularly in race portraiture. Essays also examine the evolution of the trickster from the Jack Tales to Hooper’s Simon Suggs to similar mountebanks in novels of John Kennedy Toole, Mark Childress, and Clyde Edgerton and transnational contexts, the latter exploring parallels between southern frontier humor and the Jamaican Anansi tales. Finally, the genre is situated contextually, using contemporary critical discourses, which are applied to G. W. Harris’s Sut Lovingood and to various frontier hunting stories.

Author : Georgia State Horticultural Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Fruit-culture
ISBN : CORNELL:31924066738463

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Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the Georgia State Horticultural Society ... by Georgia State Horticultural Society Pdf

Author : David Bottoms
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781619320468

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We Almost Disappear by David Bottoms Pdf

"An exquisite storyteller."—The Southern Review "David Bottoms's poems just get better and better."—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution "One finds here what one expects in a book of good Southern poems: clear narratives . . . evocative images, searching irony, and meditative poise." —Library Journal Rooted in the customs of Southern families and peopled with undertakers, bluegrass musicians, daughters practicing karate, and elderly parents, David Bottoms' poems are generous, insightful, and lean headlong into familial wisdom. Past and present interweave with grandmothers spitting tobacco juice, ponds "filled with construction runoff," and the boyhood home-site paved over for a KFC. This is Bottoms' most personal and heartbreaking book. From "My Daughter Works the Heavy Bag": A bow to the instructor, then fighting stance, and the only girl in karate class faces the heavy bag. Small for fifth grade—willow-like, says her mother— sweaty hair tangled like blown willow branches. The boys try to ignore her. They fidget against the wall, smirk, practice their routine of huff and feint. Circle, barks the instructor, jab, circle, kick, and the black bag wobbles on its chain. Again and again, the bony jewels of her fist jab out in glistening precision, her flawless legs remember arabesque and glissade. Kick, jab, kick, and the bag coughs rhythmically from its gut. The boys fidget and wait . . . David Bottom, Georgia's Poet Laureate, was inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame in 2009. He teaches at Georgia State University and co-edits Five Points magazine. He lives in Marietta, Georgia.

Author : Hugh Ruppersburg,John C. Inscoe
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780820343006

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The New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion to Georgia Literature by Hugh Ruppersburg,John C. Inscoe Pdf

Georgia has played a formative role in the writing of America. Few states have produced a more impressive array of literary figures, among them Conrad Aiken, Erskine Caldwell, James Dickey, Joel Chandler Harris, Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, Jean Toomer, and Alice Walker. This volume contains biographical and critical discussions of Georgia writers from the nineteenth century to the present as well as other information pertinent to Georgia literature. Organized in alphabetical order by author, the entries discuss each author's life and work, contributions to Georgia history and culture, and relevance to wider currents in regional and national literature. Lists of recommended readings supplement most entries. Especially important Georgia books have their own entries: works of social significance such as Lillian Smith's Strange Fruit, international publishing sensations like Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind, and crowning artistic achievements including Jean Toomer's Cane. The literary culture of the state is also covered, with information on the Georgia Review and other journals; the Georgia Center for the Book, which promotes authors and reading; and the Townsend Prize, given in recognition of the year's best fiction. This is an essential volume for readers who want both to celebrate and learn more about Georgia's literary heritage.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820323435

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Oglethorpe's Dream by Anonim Pdf

Oglethorpe's Dream unites the award-winning photography of Diane Kirkland with the beautifully powerful writing of David Bottoms, Georgia's poet laureate. The result is a stunning portrait of the lands, waters, culture, and people of Georgia. From the sea islands to the cities, from the wiregrass to the mountain forests, Kirkland gives us a gallery of spectacular images showcasing the state in its breadth, beauty, and diversity. Marrying landscape to history, Bottoms gives voice to a people filled with courage, pain, conviction, and, above all, hope. Together they capture the natural beauty of the diverse landscape, the richness of the state's storied past, and the essence of its spirited people. "Isn't that what you always hoped for," Bottoms writes, "to find a place . . . and yourself in that place?" Oglethorpe's Dream helps us all to see a place called Georgia, and there to find something of ourselves. The publication of this book was made possible by the financial support of the State of Georgia, the leadership of Governor Roy E. Barnes, and the partnership of the Georgia Department of Industry, Trade & Tourism, the Georgia Humanities Council, and the University of Georgia Press.

Author : R. L. Guffin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89062864459

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Gilbert Pioneers and Their Descendants in North Carolina and Georgia by R. L. Guffin Pdf

Author : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Louisville District
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Flood control
ISBN : IND:30000106133378

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Big Blue Lake, Big Blue River Basin, Indiana by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Louisville District Pdf

Author : Mark Childress
Publisher : Mark Childress
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781452493534

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V for Victor by Mark Childress Pdf

"If you've forgotten the thrills and chills of child's play, the incendiary imagination of adolescence, Mark Childress's second novel -- a speeding bullet of a book -- will ignite your memory. In this adventure story the hero, Victor, is sublimely lost, a celebrated ragamuffin like Huck Finn or one of Peter Pan's lost tribe." -- Marianne Gingher, New York Times Book Review "A crackling good adventure is tough to pull off, but Mark Childress has done just this and he's done it brilliantly. From his lyrical opening passages, which evoke the softness of adolescent innocence, right up through his explosive finale, he never lets us come up for air. And we never want to. Think of the Hardy Boys if you will, but also think of Harper Lee, and early Capote. This is a yarn spun with poetry. This is storytelling at its best." -- Peter Buckley, Vogue "The whole 'great watery plain of Mobile Bay' is a world the author and his gangly hero know with a strong and lovely intimacy." -- Philadelphia Inquirer

Author : Mark Childress
Publisher : Quid Pro LLC for Overture Books, New Orleans
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781610274265

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The Book of Orange by Mark Childress Pdf

A man who can’t pronounce “anonymous” In high office, seems rather ominous. We don’t have to get all Deuteronomous: Brains and power are rarely synonymous. "I love every word Mark Childress writes, including this new compilation of his great political writing. He is brilliant and hilarious. " – Anne Lamott "You, sir, are a libtard!" – Glenn Beck New York Times bestselling author Mark Childress was like many liberal Americans whose life veered off the tracks as Donald Trump rose to power. In his day-by-day journal, Childress tirelessly pursues the funny side of America’s descent into Trumpism. From Viet Nam to New Orleans to the Women’s March and beyond, the author spins variations on all the absurd, ridiculous, head-exploding, enraging, unbelievable moments of the Trump Years. The book includes photos, tweets, teets, doggerel, lyrics, fake news, and all manner of hijinks, twaddle, & flimflammery. If Trump & Company drive you crazy, but you're almost ready to laugh - this is the book for you.

Author : David Bottoms
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1556595204

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Otherworld, Underworld, Prayer Porch by David Bottoms Pdf

Memory is "smoke off a damp fire" as Bottoms explores absence, quiet spirituality, and the changing landscape of his childhood.

Author : Mark Childress
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : FICTION
ISBN : 0316172960

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Georgia Bottoms by Mark Childress Pdf

Georgia Bottoms, a Southern belle who keeps six lovers--none of whom know of the others--so she can maintain a lavish lifestyle, finds her ruse crumbling when a married preacher she has been seeing plans to confess their affair in front of his congregation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1706 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Merchant marine
ISBN : MINN:31951D03583920Z

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Merchant Vessels of the United States by Anonim Pdf

Author : J. T. Yost
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0982659555

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Bottoms Up! by J. T. Yost Pdf

"BOTTOMS UP! True Tales of Hitting Rock-Bottom" is an anthology collecting real stories of addiction including alcoholism, drug dependency, sex addiction, body dysmorphia, pornography addiction and more. These stories have been adapted into comics by a team of incredibly talented and diverse cartoonists. Edited by J.T. Yost and published by Birdcage Bottom Books.