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Author:
Portis, Charles.
Title:
Escape velocity : a Charles Portis miscellany / edited and with an introduction by Jay Jennings ; cover art and illustrations by Mike Reddy.
Publisher:
Butler Center for Arkansas Studies,
Copyright Date:
c2012
Description:
xxii, 358 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Portis, Charles--Appreciation.
Other Authors:
Jennings, Jay.
Other Titles:
Selections. 2012
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Elected newspaper reporting and writing. Memphis commercial appeal (1958) -- Arkansas gazette (1959-1960) -- New York herald tribune (1960-1964) -- General assignment -- Rights reporting -- London bureau -- Travels -- That new sound from Nashville -- An auto odyssey through darkest Baja -- The forgotten river -- Motel life, lower reaches -- Short stories. Your action line -- Nights can turn cool in Viborra -- I don't talk service no more -- The wind bloweth where it listeth -- Memoir. Combinations of Jacksons -- Drama. Delray's new moon -- Epilogue. interview[s] -- Gazette project interview (by Roy Reed) -- Tributes. Comedy in earnest (by Roy Blount Jr.) -- Like Cormac McCarthy, but funny (by Ed Park) -- Our least-known great novelist (by Ron Rosenbaum) -- Afterword to True grit (by Donna Tartt) -- The book that changed my life: Gringos (by Wells Tower).
ISBN:
1935106503 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781935106500 (hardcover : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)793911008
LCCN:
2012018195
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)
TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)
MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)
AAPF906 -- Ottumwa Public Library (Ottumwa)
SFPH074 -- Waterloo Public Library (Waterloo)
GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)

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