BILL FERRIS—The STORIED SOUTH—1st Ed HC—"Tremendous!"—Morgan Freeman

Description: • For Your Consideration: • A SIGNED First-Edition HARDCOVER of: • “THE STORIED SOUTH: VOICES OF WRITERS AND ARTISTS” (University of North Carolina Press, 2013) (Hardcover, First Edition, First Printing) • BY WILLIAM FERRIS • SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR • FEATURING: WILLIAM EGGLESTON | CARROLL CLOAR | EUDORA WELTY | ERNEST GAINES | C. VANNWOODWARD | ALICE WALKER | CLEANTH BROOKS | WALKER EVANS | ROBERT PENN WARREN | ALEX HALEY | STERLINGBROWN | MANY OTHERS • “THE STORIED SOUTH features the voices—by turn searching and honest, coy and scathing—of twenty-six of the most luminous artists and thinkers in the American cultural firmament, from EUDORA WELTY, PETE SEEGER, and ALICE WALKER to WILLIAM EGGLESTON, BOBBY RUSH, and C. VANN WOODWARD. Masterfully drawn from one-on-one interviews conducted by renowned folklorist WILLIAM FERRIS over the past forty years, the book reveals how storytelling is viscerally tied to southern identity and how the work of these Southern or Southern-inspired creators has shaped the way Americans think and talk about the South.” —THE PUBLISHER • IMPORTANT NOTE: This book was originally released with “a CD and a DVD of original audio and films of the interviews.” The copy offered here does NOT include the DVD, but DOES include the original CD (which is in LIKE NEW | UNPLAYED condition). • “It’s a collection of interviews with people who I admire greatly, and whose work has inspired me greatly in the study of the South…. They all inspired my work, and I thought together they would offer a voice of many perspectives as writers, as painters, as photographers for how you understand the American South.” —WILLIAM FERRIS • “This sweeping record of distinct Southern voices captures beautifully the mood, texture, history, and inspiration of our beloved part of the world.”—JOHN GRISHAM • “What a tremendous work! This wonderful book should grace every Southerner’s library, remembering that every southerner is not in the South.” —MORGAN FREEMAN • “FERRIS’s bringing-together of these famous personages offers us an unexpected and rich profusion of spirits, intelligences, sympathies, talents, enthusiasms, prejudices, passions and a few arch posturings and dissemblings to make it all plausible. That they are all (or mostly) Southerners is far from what’s most interesting about these ‘greats.’ However, that what they say confirms their irremediable human-ness, is interesting, and is also (I have to say) very reassuring.” —RICHARD FORD • “Intimate, humorous, thoughtful, these writers, artists, and scholars show us the profound impact of place…on the southland of the imagination…. I know that I will turn to these pages again and again.” —NATASHA TRETHEWEY • “WILLIAM FERRIS has long reigned as the unimpeachable source of the entire Southern experience…. THE STOIRED SOUTH is a love song to the South that BILL helped illuminate. It’s a crowning achievement of his own storied career.” —PAT CONROY • “These compelling stories help us ask fresh and meaningful questions about the meaning of art, race, region, and history. They surprise us, make us laugh, and open their work to us in anew.” —HENRY LOUIS GATES • “Not to be missed…. This collection is a triumph of intelligent and provocative conversation.” —JACKSON (MISS.) CLARION-LEDGER • “An immensely important book that is passionate and keenly insightful and that is a crucial addition to the growing body of work on the South.” —THE JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN HISTORY • “A capstone of this historian’s career…. FERRIS has created a thoroughly upbeat portrait of regional culture.” —ORAL HISTORY REVIEW • “Deeply relevant. BILL FERRIS captures revealing stories of some of the South's finest artists while raising bold questions about differences of place, time, class, race, and intention.” —TOM RANKIN, CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY STUDIES, DUKE UNIVERSITY • “The book is a bittersweet love song to the muddy rivers and rolling fields of Oklahoma, Mississippi and the rest of the South—the languid afternoons, the constant static of buzzing insects, and the taut undercurrent of racial tension that produced some of the greatest novels, paintings and music of the 20th century. All of it is heard through the voices of the artists themselves —like ROOTS author ALEX HALEY, who describes the South as ‘a place of hands, it’s a place of touch, of caress, of less of slapping, of knocking people down, it’s a softer, sweeter culture.’” —NPR, WEEKEND EDITION • “Undoubtedly a volume that should be included in the personal library of every Southerner or lover of the Southern storytelling tradition. When the final page of THE STORIED SOUTH Is turned, readers will truly feel like they have been sitting on the front porch listening to the voices and stories of these legendary Southern icons…. Intimate and moving.”—CLICK MAGAZINE• “A wonderful work. Required for viewers and readers interested in Southern folkways and culture.” —LIBRARY JOURNAL (STARRED REVIEW)• “[A] rich collection developed over 40 years…. [A] moving and eloquent book.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY• “Compiles decades' worth of deeply personal interviews with many of the South's greatest luminaries.” —GARDEN AND GUN• “FERRIS’s idea of an essential South, layered by a narrative sensibility in music, literature and the visual arts, sings to the better angels of our nature…. Yet reading this remarkable book one realizes, too, that a brooding, unsettled nature about the South is still sadly with us. —NEW ORLEANS MAGAZINE• “THE STORIED SOUTH bring[s] these tales to life…. With FERRIS as a guide, readers will get a revealing look at the region before air-conditioning and chain businesses, smartphones and corporate monoliths changed it forever.” —RALEIGH (NC) NEWS & OBSERVER • “A treat for lovers of Southern literature.” —WILMINGTON (NC) STAR NEWS • • For other details about this book, please see below. • TITLE: “THE STORIED SOUTH: Voices of Writers and Artists” AUTHOR & PHOTOGRAPHER: WILLIAM FERRIS ILLUSTRATED: WITH 45 B&W PHOTOS TYPE: HARDCOVER NUMBER OF PAGES: 274 PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS (CHAPEL HILL), 2013 EDITION: FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING *RE: On the Copyright Page, this Number Row: “10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.” NOTE: This copy is NOT ex-library NOR a book-club edition. ISBN: 978-14696-0754-2 CONDITION of DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD PLUS.Per university style, not issued with price on the DJ. Corners & spine tips are lightly bumped. Light but persistent scratching on sides; all else—v. clean & v. bright. (Now protected in a Brodart archival cover.) CONDITION of BOOK: VERY GOOD | VERY GOOD PLUS.Front is square, but the back has a slight slant due to the placement of the CD in a plastic pocket on the inside of the back cover. The bulge of the CD causes some pages to shift around & might be common to all copies of this book. Boards are clean. Top corner on back is slightly bent; other corners are sharp. Spine is tight with bumped tips. Text-block edges are fine. There is a faint crease in the top margin of the pages (due to the CD placement?), but pages are otherwise bright & clean with no writing (save for the author’s signature), no underlining, no stains, no foxing, no tears, no doodling, etc. LOOKS UNREAD. CONDITION OF CD: LIKE NEW | UNPLAYED. CONDITION OF DVD: NOT INCLUDED. THE AUTHOR WILLIAM FERRIS’s SIGNATURE: Appears, in black ink, on the Half Title Page. SHIPPING NEWS: This book will be wrapped with care before being shipped in a cushioned and sturdy box. 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