NORTH TOWARD HOME(ISBN=) 英文原版

North Toward Home is the finest evocation of an
American boyhood since Mark Twain.–Sunday Times
(London)

“Vivid sketches of personas and places, moments when the spirit of
things is caught with affecting precision…. And…prose that is
extraordinarily clean, flexible and incisive.”–The New York
Times Book Review

“North Toward Home is a classic.”–William Styron —
Review

With his signature style and grace, Willie Morris, arguably one
of this country’s finest Southern writers, presents us with an
unparalleled memoir of a country in transition and a boy coming of
age in a period of tumultuous cultural, social, and political
change.

In North Toward Home, Morris vividly recalls the South of
his childhood with all of its cruelty, grace, and foibles intact.
He chronicles desegregation and the rise of Lyndon Johnson in Texas
in the 50s and 60s, and New York in the 1960s, where he became the
controversial editor of Harper’s magazine. North Toward
Home is the perceptive story of the education of an observant
and intelligent young man, and a gifted writer’s keen observations
of a country in transition. It is, as Walker Percy wrote, “a
touching, deeply felt and memorable account of one man’s
pilgrimage.”

Willie Morris’s last book, My Cat Spit McGee
(0-375-50321-8) was published by Random house in Fall 1999. He
lived in Jackson, Mississippi, until his death in 1999.

Introduction
PART  ONE Mississippi
PART  TWO Texas
PART  THREE New York