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THE LAST DAYS OF BIG GRASSY FORK By Hunter James 1st Edition 1st Printing HC-DJ
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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of any imperfections.
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- Condition
- Good
- Seller notes
- Book Title
- The Last Days of Big Grassy Fork
- Item Height
- 9.02 inches
- ISBN-10
- 0813122155
- Features
- 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, 1st Printing
- ISBN
- 9780813122151
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
ISBN-10
0813122155
ISBN-13
9780813122151
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1931295
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Publication Name
Last Days of Big Grassy Fork
Language
English
Publication Year
2002
Subject
Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy (See Also Social Science / Agriculture & Food), Environmental Conservation & Protection, Cultural Heritage, Economic Conditions, General, Sociology / Urban
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Nature, Political Science, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight
20 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2001-003410
Dewey Edition
21
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
The author--part Thoreau, part John Crow Ransom, part Wendell Berry--is, perhaps more than any of them, Mark Twain--or, more precisely, the self-deprecating, often hapless persona Twain often cultivated in his early autobiographical works., "In peeling away his romantic illusions, James offers an endlessly entertaining account of his own ill-conceived endeavors and his rather unromantic but highly entertaining family history.-- North Carolina Literary Review" -- North Carolina Literary Review, "The author -- part Thoreau, part John Crow Ransom, part Wendell Berry -- is, perhaps more than any of them, Mark Twain -- or, more precisely, the self-deprecating, often hapless persona Twain often cultivated in his early autobiographical works." -- Southern Cultures, In peeling away his romantic illusions, James offers an endlessly entertaining account of his own ill-conceived endeavors and his rather unromantic but highly entertaining family history., "The author -- part Thoreau, part John Crow Ransom, part Wendell Berry -- is, perhaps more than any of them, Mark Twain -- or, more precisely, the self-deprecating, often hapless persona Twain often cultivated in his early autobiographical works.-- Southern Cultures" -- Southern Cultures, "In peeling away his romantic illusions, James offers an endlessly entertaining account of his own ill-conceived endeavors and his rather unromantic but highly entertaining family history." -- North Carolina Literary Review
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
975.6/67
Table Of Content
The Symbolism of Vaudeville Evolution of a Ritual The New Folk and Their Heroes From Sin to Sociology The Mechanics of Fantasy The New Humor A Modern Totemism and Sorcery The Playlets The Palaces The Patterns of Ritual Meaning
Synopsis
The Last Days of Big Grassy Fork recounts newspaperman Hunter James's attempts to save his 100-year-old family farm and homestead from extinction. Wise, irreverent, pugnacious, and often hilarious, James fights back against the galloping urbanization of his beloved North Carolina piedmont. Interweaving current affairs and family history, James details the growth of the Winston-Salem area as a center of Moravian piety and later as the world's largest tobacco manufacturing center. This personal history shows he is not the only James to have had a difficult time fitting in with the neighbors' idea of progress; his family's trouble in the Piedmont began early. In 1904 his grandfather was flooded out of a brothel in his birthday suit, and he later scandalized the local Baptist church with drunken sermons, exposing the dark secrets of the congregation. James's unique sense of the absurd, and his willingness to play the fool, make for entertaining reading as each of his efforts at preservation fail miserably. He accidentally torches a neighbor's barn in an attempt to burn off his best pasture land, as was always done in the past; he squanders enormous amounts of money vainly trying to save his farm by becoming the piedmont's preeminent lord of the manor, vintner, wine snob, and horseman; and he finally seals his own doom when in alliance with his neighbors he inadvertently creates the "world's largest garbage pit." The book ends with an eloquent plea for a true agrarianism in the modern South, for the need to strike a balance between the call for industrial expansion and the desire to preserve the land., Last Days of Big Grassy Fork recounts newspaperman Hunter James's attempts to save his 100-year-old family farm and homestead from extinction. Wise, irreverent, pugnacious, and often hilarious, James fights back against the galloping urbanization of his beloved North Carolina piedmont. Interweaving current affairs and family history, James details the growth of the Winston-Salem area as a center of Moravian piety and later as the world's largest tobacco manufacturing center. This personal histor
LC Classification Number
F264.W8J36 2002
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