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Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood

by Willie Morris
Good Old Boy: A Delta Boyhood
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36 ratings, 4.19 average rating, 4 reviews (more data...)
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published
October 1st 2000 by Yoknapatawpha Press

binding
Paperback, 143 pages

isbn
0916242684   (isbn13: 9780916242688)

description
juvenile fiction






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Alison
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09/13/08

bookshelves: memoirs, southernwriters
Read in August, 2008
recommends it for: Everyone; children; Southerners
Willie Morris, who spent his childhood in Yazoo City, Mississippi, became the youngest editor of Harper's magazine in 1967. He published several books about his childhood in the South (including "My Dog Skip") as well as his years in New York ("New York Days") where he befriended "William Styron, David Halberstam, Woody Allen, Bobby Kennedy, Truman Capote, Shirley MacLaine, George Plimpton, Leonard Bernstein, and the other leading figures of the time."

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Matt
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02/26/08

Read it in third grade or so and loved it. I imagine I'd still like it - though I don't particularly know that it'd hold up to the other autobiography of his I read, North Towards Home, I still recall it as vastly entertaining and funny.

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09/21/08

It's one of the few books I actually liked in junior high.
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12/17/07

This is a book about the small MS town where I grew up.
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