A Town Called Clio

By Lee M. Hunt

Hunt tells the stories of real people who lived in a real town in the time between the World Wars: Dishrag Jack McRay, oft-married but never tamed Dee Sconyers, the deaf-mute Dummy John, the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1881320200
• ISBN13: 9781881320203
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: River City Pub
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Take this with you on your vacation

It is funny, extremely interesting, and makes you want to read more about some of its subjects. The author has a knack for setting up the story so that you, as the reader, will understand the in's and out's of small town life 80 to 100 years ago. Things that we do not give a second thought about, since dogs are now vacinated again rabies, the author details with serious humor. (I'm still laughing about the stampede story.) As I read the book the descriptions of people and places became an image in my mind similar to the school I attended as a child and the people I knew, not the mention the close encounters I also had with snakes. Take this book on vacation and kick back and enjoy.

YOU WILL LAUGH OUT LOUD!

One of only two books that I have ever read that have made me laugh out loud. The setting is the little town of Clio, Alabama, in the 1930's--hometown of the author and of Alabama Governor George Wallace. The content is a compilation of stories, really "Tall Stories," about real people and real and imagined events. The reader will get a great feel for the small-town South of the period, will learn lessons from the text, but most of all will enjoy the hilarious tales so well portrayed by the author. You will learn how to "tame" both husbands and wives, how not to have a big bulldog attack a little monkey, everything you need to know about "hoop snakes," and many more "useful" things. The book is one that people of all ages will enjoy. I've now read it three times, and still laugh at the stories!