BE SWEET. A Conditional Love Story

NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1998,, 1998. 1st Edition. Hardcover. first printing. Pages 288,octavo, hardcover, first printing. Book and dust jacket are in Fine condition, F/F. Review slip laid in. 101602A ISBN: 0-679-40054-0

From Publisher:

In the book his laughing and loving readers have been waiting for, our generation's master of full-hearted humor lays open the soul of his life story.
Roy Blount Jr.--Georgia boy turned New York wit, lover of baseball and interesting women, bumbling adventurer, literary lion, salty-limerick virtuoso and impassioned father--journeys into the past and his psyche (also all the way to China, sixty feet underwater and to various Manhattan hot spots) in search of the answers to three riddles that have haunted him intimately:
One: the riddle of "the family curse." Two: the riddle of what drives him (or anyone) to be funny. Three: the riddle of what so cruelly tangled his unseverable bond with the beguiling, beaten orphan girl who became the impossible mother who raised him to Be Sweet.
Roy Blount's memoir is sardonic and sentimental, hilarious and grieving, brazen and bashful, tough and tender--sometimes by turns and sometimes all at once. Almost harshly honest, yet sportively wayward, "Be Sweet" resonates with the complex but bouncy chords of a whole man singing, clinkers and all.

Product Info

ISBN: 0679400540

ISBN-13: 9780679400547

Publisher: NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1998,

Year: 1998

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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