Signed & Inscribed by the Author. Octavo, Very Good+, with light soiling to upper edge; in a Very Good, mylar protected dust jacket with edgewear. From dust jacket: When Willie Morris' North Toward Home was published in 1967 and awarded the dstinguished Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship, it was hailed as the advent of of a brilliant voice in American letters. More than a lyrical humorous, and sensitive autobiography, it is a highly personalized account of a generation growing up and away from the certitudes of the 1940s and Ô50s to confront the deep burdens of the South, and America, i... View More...
Publisher:
New York: Random House, [1998]. First Edition, As Stated.
Seller ID: 05063scs
Octavo, black cloth & blue boards, gilt letters, 288 pp. Fine (As New), in a FIne (As New) dust jacket. Ò...[Morris] brings together the harsh realities of race and the magical illusions of Hollywood in an unusual book about the making of the movie Ghosts of Mississippi and its more complicated historical background: the 1963 assassination of the courageous civil rights activist Medgar Evers and the conviction thirty years later of his killer, Byron De La Beckwith, in one of the most striking cases in the annals of American jurispudence....[It] is not only a dramatic account of the making o... View More...
