South Toward Home: Travels in Southern Literature

by Margaret Eby

Book Overview

What is it about the South that has inspired so much of America's greatest literature? And why do we think of the authors it influenced not just as writers, but as Southern writers? In South Toward Home, Margaret Eby goes in search of answers to these questions, visiting the stomping grounds of ten Southern authors, including William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Richard Wright, Truman Capote, Harper Lee, and Flannery O'Connor. Combining...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039335329X
• ISBN13: 9780393353297
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.2"