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Essays about the South
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Gulf coast
Gulf Coast culture and history
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Life in Mobile Alabama
mardi gras
memoir
Memoir of place and identity
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Mobile AL literary nonfiction
Mobile Alabama memoir
mobile county
Mobile River
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Port city stories
Portrait of a Southern city
Roy Hoffman Back Home
southeastern united states
southern culture
Southern essay collection
Southern homecoming stories
Southern identity in literature
Southern journalism and memoir
Southern literary nonfiction
Southern roots and return
Southern storytelling
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Southern writers and journalists
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Product details
- ISBN 9780817354312
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 165 x 219mm
- Publication Date: 15 Feb 2007
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Like a photo album, ""Back Home"" presents close-up portraits of everyday places and ordinary people. There are meditations on downtown Mobile, where Roy Hoffman's grandparents arrived as immigrants a century ago; the waterfront where lonshoremen labor and shrimpers work their nets; the back roads leading to obscure but intriguing destinations. Hoffman records local people telling their own tales of race relations, sports, agriculture, and Mardi Gras celebrations. Fishermen, baseball players, bakers, authors, political figures - a strikingly diverse population walks across the stage of ""Back Home"".
Roy Hoffman is Writer-in-Residence for the Mobile Register and author of Chicken Dreaming Corn and the Lillian Smith Award-winning Almost Family.
