City Limits: Memories of a Small Town Boy

by Terry Teachout

Book Overview

Terry Teachout sings of regional America. This is the story of how he grew up in a small town and after many adventures and much embarrassment, went away to the big city to live.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671683519
• ISBN13: 9780671683511
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Savoring My Hometown Through the Writings of My Fellow Sikestonian and Childhood Church Fellow

Loved this book because it took me back to all the places and some people that I knew having been born in Sikeston myself. terry is a few years younger than me, falling in between my brother and sister's ages. We went to church together at Murray Lane Baptist Church and shared Sikestin High as our alma mater. We knew his parents and brother. What a treat to relive moments of his life that I was unaware if and to share memories that all Sikeston kids experience. Thanks for the memories, Terry!! Linda Stacy McAlister. Class of 1967 Sister of Marty Stacy and Rhonda Stacy

An Interesting Autobiographical Look at An Important American Critic

I enjoyed Terry Teachout's book of autobiographical essays "City Limits". There is nothing terribly important in the book, but its tone and pace are leisurely & enjoyable and his stories reveal interesting details about an important cultural critic whose influence is rising each year through his books and articles in "Commentary", "The Wall Street Journal" and other influential conservative journals of opinion. Teachout's writing reminds me of my favorite writer, Joseph Epstein (it is probably no coincidence that you often find their pieces in the same issues of publications). Both writers are extremely culturally fluent with a lot of interesting things to say. Their writing is also very accessable to the average, educated person who is looking to learn more about literature, music, theater, art, and the good life in general.