Live from the Homesick Jamboree

by Adrian Blevins

Book Overview

Molten and musical poetry from an acclaimed Southern writer

Live from the Homesick Jamboree is a brave, brash, funny, and tragic hue and cry on growing up female during the 1970s, "when everything was always so awash" that the speaker finds herself adrift among adults who act like children. The book moves from adolescence through a dry-eyed, poignant exploration of two marriages, motherhood, and the larger world, with the headlong...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819569305
• ISBN13: 9780819569301
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 68 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"