{"product_id":"south-to-a-very-old-place-9780679736950","title":"South to a Very Old Place","description":"The highly acclaimed novelist and biographer Albert Murray tells his classic memoir of growing up in Alabama during the 1920s and 1930s in \u003ci\u003eSouth to a Very Old Place\u003c\/i\u003e. 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, informed by \"the poet's language, the novelist's sensibility, the essayist's clarity, the jazzman's imagination, the gospel singer's depth of feeling\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"His perceptions are firmly based in the blues idiom, and it is black music no less than literary criticism and historical analysis that gives his work its authenticity, its emotional vigor and its tenacious hold on the intellect. . . . [It] destroys some fashionable sociopolitical interpretations of growing up black.\"--Toni Morrison, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Albert Murray\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/03\/1991\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.72h x 4.98w x 0.62d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780679736950\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlbert Murray\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Omni-Americans, Stomping the Blues, The Hero and the Blues, South to a Very Old Place, Conjugations and Reiterations\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFrom the Briarpatch File\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the coauthor of\u003ci\u003e Good Morning Blues: The Autobiography of Count Basie\u003c\/i\u003e and the coeditor of\u003ci\u003e Trading Twelves: The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43639925276787,"sku":"9.78068E+12","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_d162e5c2-5783-48d0-a14d-427aae2ecde5.jpg?v=1755696130","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/south-to-a-very-old-place-9780679736950","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}