South to a Very Old Place
Albert Murray
South to a Very Old Place is a classic memoir of growing up in Alabama during the 1920s and 1930s. Intermingling remembrances of youth with engaging conversation, African-American folklore, and astute cultural criticism, it is at once an intimate personal journey and an incisive social history.
Buy this book at AmazonAd- Publisher
- Vintage
- Year
- 2012
- ISBN-13
- 9780307828613
- Genre
- Biography & Memoir
- Topics
- African-American life in the SouthRace and identitySouthern culture and folklore
Awards
- National Book Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1973)
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