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Mud on the stars / William Bradford Huie ; with an introduction by Donald R. Noble.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Library Alabama ClassicsPublisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [1996]Copyright date: ©1996Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780817389345
  • 0817389342
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mud on the Stars.DDC classification:
  • 813/.52 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3515.U32
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction / Donald R. Noble; Mud on the Stars; To the Reader; It's New Year's Eve; 1929: ""The Good Livers""; 1929-1933: Pajamas and Lifebuoy; 1933: The Gover'mint's a-Comin'!; 1934-1935: Cossack and Bolshevist; 1934-1938: World's End; 1936-1938: Defense and Defeat; 1939: Bunker Hills; 1940-1941: Two Gasoline Cans; 1942: The New Year.
Summary: William Bradford Huie's first novel, Mud on the Stars, is largely autobiographical and is set in the years 1929-1942. As in many of his later books, the theme here is of the education of the inexperienced youth, which is, after all, the quintessential American story. Drawing on his own boyhood, Huie gives the reader a detailed account of rural life and race relations in the TennesseeValley in the early years of this century, including a vivid picture of college life at The University of Alabama during the Great Depression. Through a careful weaving of characters and events, fact and fiction,
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Introduction / Donald R. Noble; Mud on the Stars; To the Reader; It's New Year's Eve; 1929: ""The Good Livers""; 1929-1933: Pajamas and Lifebuoy; 1933: The Gover'mint's a-Comin'!; 1934-1935: Cossack and Bolshevist; 1934-1938: World's End; 1936-1938: Defense and Defeat; 1939: Bunker Hills; 1940-1941: Two Gasoline Cans; 1942: The New Year.

William Bradford Huie's first novel, Mud on the Stars, is largely autobiographical and is set in the years 1929-1942. As in many of his later books, the theme here is of the education of the inexperienced youth, which is, after all, the quintessential American story. Drawing on his own boyhood, Huie gives the reader a detailed account of rural life and race relations in the TennesseeValley in the early years of this century, including a vivid picture of college life at The University of Alabama during the Great Depression. Through a careful weaving of characters and events, fact and fiction,

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