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Crackers
Crackers
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To get at the heart of being Southern, one should turn to Crackers. Roy Blount, Jr., puts readers in touch with possums, heterosexist dancing, men named Junior, a two-headed four-armed three-legged gospel singing man, and their feelings about the Carter administration. “Blount is Andy Rooney with a Georgia accent, only funnier.” –Washington Post Book World
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To get at the heart of being Southern, one should turn to Crackers. Roy Blount, Jr., puts readers in touch with possums, heterosexist dancing, men named Junior, a two-headed four-armed three-legged gospel singing man, and their feelings about the Carter administration. “Blount is Andy Rooney with a Georgia accent, only funnier.” –Washington Post Book World

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About Roy

Roy Blount Jr.’s twenty-first book, Alphabet Juice, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in October of 2008. His biography of Robert E. Lee has recently come out in paperback. Feet on the Street: Rambles Around New Orleans, which according to The New York...

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Published Reviews

Dec.13.2007

Blount’s passing observations can sum up an entire city. “Havana was like an abandoned wedding cake that ants have moved into,” he writes. And of the city near where he grew up: “In the beginning, Atlanta...

Dec.13.2007

Ever since Roy Blount, Jr. packed his bags and left the South nearly forty years ago, he has been stuck with the job of explaining himself and his people to Northeastern liberals … patiently explaining that...