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Escape velocity : a Charles Portis miscellany / edited and with an introduction by Jay Jennings ; cover art and illustrations by Mike Reddy.
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| Authors: |
Portis, Charles.
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| Call number: |
813.54 Portis POR |
| Publisher: |
Little Rock, Ark. : Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, c2012. |
| Publication date: |
c2012. |
| Subject: |
Portis, Charles -- Appreciation.
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| Title: |
Escape velocity : a Charles Portis miscellany / edited and with an introduction by Jay Jennings ; cover art and illustrations by Mike Reddy. |
| Uniform title: |
Selections. 2012
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| Physical description: |
xxii, 358 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents note: |
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). |
| Summary note: |
Brings together Portis' writings other than his four novels, including journalism, travel stories, short fiction, memoir, and even a play. |
| Biography note: |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Added author: |
Jennings, Jay, 1957-
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| ISBN: |
9781935106500 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1935106503 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| LCCN: |
2012018195 |
| Url for this record: |
http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1410842
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| Bib No.: |
1410842 |
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