New York: Knopf, 1998 1st ed. INSCRIBED on title p. by author. 289pp. hardback sm 4to: Very Good/no dj [residential institution reading library stamp ffep; top corners are very lightly bumped; else VG] The quondam Georgia humorist’s 13th book, "a wild tell-all, a raucous, unflinching memoir as funny as anything he’s ever written," according to The New York Times. The Boston Globe reviewer said: "If Sophocles had married Dorothy Parker, I’m not certain what their child might have looked like, but he should have sounded something like Roy Blount, Jr."

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My mother loved me to pieces, as she often said, writes Roy Blount Jr., "and I'm still trying to pick up the pieces." In the book his readers have been waiting for, our generation's master of full-hearted humor lays open the soul of his life story. Blount—Georgia boy, New York wit, lover of baseball and interesting women, bumbling adventurer, salty-limerick virtuoso, and impassioned father—journeys into his past, and his psyche (and also to China, Manhattan, and sixty feet underwater) in search of the answers to three riddles that have haunted his life: one, the riddle of "the family curse"; two, the riddle of what drives him, or anyone, to be funny; and three, the riddle of what so cruelly tangled his bond to the beguiling orphan girl who became the impossible mother who raised him to Be Sweet. Sardonic and sentimental, hilarious and grieving, brazen and bashful, tough and tender, honest and wayward, Be Sweet resonates with the complex but bouncy chords of a whole man singing, clinkers and all.

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Bookseller: Auldfarran Books, IOBA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 18952
Title: Be Sweet (inscribed)
Author: Blount, Roy Jr
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1998 1st ed.
ISBN 10: 0679400540
ISBN 13: 9780679400547
Publisher: New York: Knopf
Place of Publication: New York
This edition first published: May 19, 1998
Keywords: HUMOR MEMOIR AUTOBIOGRAPHY ESSAYS DECATUR GEORGIA GEORGIANA SIGNED COLLECTIBLE COPY RICK BEARD ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY DIRECTOR
Bookseller catalogs: Humor;

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