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The Redneck Way of Knowledge (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Blanche Mccrary Boyd

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This intoxicating book by the author of The Revolution of Little Girls combines autobiography, reporting, and the dressed-up lies we call fiction. An underground classic since its initial publication, it is the wildly funny personal testament of Blanche McCrary Boyd, sixties radical and born-againÀ Southerner, a lesbian with an un-P.C. passion for skydiving and stock-car racing, a graduate of Esalen and kundalini yoga who now takes her altered states "raw, like oysters."

The Redneck Way of Knowledge is about family reunions and kamikaze love affairs. It is about crashing an arts festival with two precociously decayed Charleston aristocrats and watching the Pope deliver Communion at Yankee Stadium. It is about the selves we try on and slough off on the way to becoming who we are. Throughout, Blanche Boyd travels the expressway between the realm of the senses and the state of grace, and reports on the journey in prose that combines riotous humor, diamond-hard intelligence, and savage lyricism.

Table of Contents

Aunt Jenny at the Rockettes — The redneck way of knowledge — Be here then — A thousand words about a picture — John Paul's passion play — What is this thing called? — Tough — Ambush — Partying is such sweet sorrow — South Carolina — Growing up racist.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780679757672
Introduction:
Allison, Dorothy
Author:
Allison, Dorothy
Author:
Boyd, Blanche McCrary
Publisher:
Vintage
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Biography
Subject:
Women
Subject:
Lesbians
Subject:
Southern states
Subject:
Women authors, American
Subject:
Authors, American
Subject:
South carolina
Subject:
Lesbians -- United States -- Biography.
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Series:
Vintage Contemporaries (Paperback)
Series Volume:
0000
Publication Date:
19950115
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
176
Dimensions:
8.00x5.20x.55 in. .47 lbs.

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