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A Charles Portis Miscellany
Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
October 2012
On Sale: October 1, 2012
380 pages
ISBN: 1935106503
EAN: 9781935106500
Kindle: B00AMNM1EI
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For those who care about literature or simply love a good
laugh (or both), Charles Portis has long been one of
America's most admired novelists. His 1968 novel True Grit
is fixed in the contemporary canon, and four more have been
hailed as comic masterpieces. Now, for the first time, his
other writings--journalism, travel stories, short fiction,
memoir, and even a play--have been brought together in
Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany, his first new
book in more than twenty years. All the familiar Portis elements are here: picaresque
adventures, deadpan humor, an expert eye for detail and keen
ear for the spoken word, and encounters with oddball
characters both real and imagined. The collection
encompasses the breadth of his fifty-year writing career,
from his gripping reportage of the civil rights movement for
the New York Herald Tribune to a comic short story about the
demise of journalism in the 21st century. New to even the
most ardent fan is his three-act play, Delray's New Moon,
performed onstage in 1996 and published here for the first time. Whether this is your first encounter with the world of
Portis or a long-awaited return to it, you'll agree with
critic Ron Rosenbaum--whose essay appears here alongside
tributes by other writers--that Portis "will come to be
regarded as the author of classics on the order of a
twentieth-century Mark Twain, a writer who captures the soul
of America."
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