Obscure Southern Criticism—William Caverlee—AMID THE SWIRLING GHOSTS—PB

Description: • For your consideration: • A LIKE NEW | SEALED Trade Paperback of: • Southern Literary Criticism—with a few pieces on Louisiana Culture: • “AMID THE SWIRLING GHOSTS AND OTHER ESSAYS” (University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, 2009) (Trade Paperback) • BY WILLIAM CAVERLEE • “WILLIAM CAVERLEE’S writing reminds us that there is always a need for insightful, probing, and eloquent criticism—even when talking about works we think we know. Take WILLIAM FAULKNER’s THE SOUND AND THE FURY. CAVERLEE’s playful approach to this ‘improbable novel,’ and his brisk, lucid insight into FAULKNER’s ‘ridiculous syntax…obsessions, oddities…and lofty talk of honor, family, the past’ suddenly render FAULKNER a little more understandable—or understandable in a fresh way. No mean feat.” “In [revisiting] another well-known [artifact] of Southern literature, FLANNERY O’CONNORS’s 1953 story, A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND, CAVERLEE does the same thing he did with the FAULKNER book—[he makes the familiar fresh.]. No mean feat. “CAVERLEE is a writer of vast range—and enthusiasms. His general essays, [which cover such diverse subjects as the evolution of an office staple (the staple) and the dramatic killings of two infamous criminals (Bonnie and Clyde)], are as thoughtful [and surprise-laden] as his literary analysis.” —THE PUBLISHER • “Great ‘Southern’ writer. Wonderful collection of essays from an Oxford American contributor. The subjects range far and wide…. Highly recommended, a diamond in the rough.” —FOTOCHOP, AMAZON REVIEW• AN EXCERT: “Without ever leaving her hide-out in Milledgeville, Georgia, FLANNERY O’CONNOR knew all there was to know about the two-lane, dirt and blacktop Southern roads of the 1950s—with their junkyards and tourist courts, gravel pits and pine trees that pressed at the edges of the road. She knew the slogans of the Burma Shave signs, knew the names of barbecue joints and the chicken baskets on their menus. She also knew a backwoods American cadence and vocabulary you’d think was limited to cops, truckers, runaway teens, and patrons of the Teardrop Inn where at midnight somebody could always be counted on to go out to a pickup truck and come back with a shotgun. She was a virtuoso mimic, and she assimilated whole populations of American sounds and voices, and then offered them back to us from time to time in her small fictional detonations, one of which she named, in 1953, ‘A GOOD MAN IS HARD TO FIND.” —WILLIAM CAVERLEE, FROM “AMID THE SWIRLING GHOSTS AND OTHER ESSAYS” •• For other details, please see below. • TITLE: “AMID THE SWIRLING GHOSTS AND OTHER ESSAYS” AUTHOR: WILLIAM CAVERLEE COVER ART: MAGGIE TAYLOR TYPE: TRADE PAPERBACK PAGES: 214 PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press (Lafayette, Louisiana), 2009 ISBN: 9781887366922 EDITION: First Edition EDITION NOTE: This copy is NEITHER Ex-Library NOR a Book Club Edition CONDITION of WRAPS: LIKE NEW. This book was sealed in plastic by the publisher & remains in that condition. CONDITION of BOOK ITSELF: LIKE NEW. This book was sealed in plastic by the publisher & remains in that condition. 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