A wake for the living: A family chronicle

by Andrew Lytle

Book Overview

Chronicle of Southern history encapsulated by that of the famous writer's Tennessee family. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517519011
• ISBN13: 9780517519011
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: Crown Publishers
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Very interesting read

A very revealing book by an extraordinary man. In the course of telling his family's story, Mr. Lytle makes the South's colorful past and its original characters come alive. He has a gift for simply seeing the world in a very different way than most of ever can, but he is also able to put the experience on paper in such a way that we can all soak it in.

very good book

Some of Mr. Lytle's prose can be almost too thick--The Velvet Horn. But his short stories in Alchemy are very good, well crafted but still juicy. The bio on Forrest is good also, its beginning as artistic a rendering of a portrait as I have ever read, quite unique. But in A Wake for the Living, he shows--I think to some extent like Hemingway in A Movable Feast--that he writes extremely well about nonfiction that is intimate. I would recommend his short stories in Alchemey and also this book as good first ones of Lytle to start-out with.