I Left My Heart in Shanghi, Alabama: Essays on Home and Place

by Carroll Dale Short

After Dale Short moved away (reluctantly) from his hometown of Shanghi sic] in Walker County, Alabama, he wrote home every week--by means of a newspaper column in The Daily Mountain Eagle, where he held his first writing job in the late 1960s. The columns--a homesick country boy's reflections on the comforts, conflicts, and absurdities of living in the modern world--have become a consistent favorite of Walker County readers, and have been honored...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1603062076
• ISBN13: 9781603062077
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: NewSouth Books
• Length: 126 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"