Roy Blount's Book of Southern Humor

by Roy Blount Jr.

Book Overview

The richest vein of American humor--the broadest, the earthiest, the most outrageously inventive--can be found below the Mason-Dixon line, where the comic impulse just naturally seems allied to the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393036952
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 670 Pages
• Weight: 2.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.6" x 1.5" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Exhaustive, Invaluable Anthology

Blount, that genius of slippery Southern prose, collects here a truly massive number of classic comedy gems concerning life below the Mason-Dixon line. The pieces range from elegantly witty to down-home scatological. Novelists, monologists, essayists, journalists, and short-story writers are all represented. This book is especially valuable because of the out-of-print masterpieces that are excerpted, like John Fergus Ryan's twisted epic Redneck Bride, The. Highly recommended.