Kicking Back: Further Dispatches from the South

by John Shelton Reed

Why are Northerners offended when Southerners ask them where they go to church? Why are Southerners offended when Californians ask them what they do for exercise? Reed explores cultural differences... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082621004X
• ISBN13: 9780826210043
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 14 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 5

Customer Reviews

Pleasing Sequel to "Whistling Dixie"

John Shelton Reed's ability to write with humor and seriousness at the same time never ceases to amaze me. He gets his usually penetrating point across with such concise facility. This book is a just a collection of impressions about the South written from a Southerner's point of view. It's not intended as an academic treatise, but I've read other works by Reed which shows him to be a brilliant academic, so it's nice to know that these aren't just the ramblings of some ill-informed and provincial person. He's seen the world, and frankly prefers the South to any of it. Really, I have to agree with him whole-heartedly in this vein!