A Wake for the Living

by Andrew Lytle

Book Overview

Chronicle of Southern history encapsulated by that of the famous writer's Tennessee family. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1879941104
• ISBN13: 9781879941106
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Very interesting read

A very revealing book by an extraordinary man. In the course of telling his family's story, Mr. Lytle makes the South's colorful past and its original characters come alive. He has a gift for simply seeing the world in a very different way than most of ever can, but he is also able to put the experience on paper in such a way that we can all soak it in.

very good book

Some of Mr. Lytle's prose can be almost too thick--The Velvet Horn. But his short stories in Alchemy are very good, well crafted but still juicy. The bio on Forrest is good also, its beginning as artistic a rendering of a portrait as I have ever read, quite unique. But in A Wake for the Living, he shows--I think to some extent like Hemingway in A Movable Feast--that he writes extremely well about nonfiction that is intimate. I would recommend his short stories in Alchemey and also this book as good first ones of Lytle to start-out with.