Publication

1998 - A.A. Knopf, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

72,250 words, Guess

Page Count

289 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing342401
  • Goodreads4711506

Classifications

  • DDC818/.5409
  • LCCPS3552.L687 Z465 1998

Description

Roy Blount Jr. - Georgia boy turned New York wit, lover of baseball and interesting women, bumbling adventurer, literary lion, salty-limerick virtuoso and impassioned father - journeys into the past and his psyche (also all the way to China, sixty feet underwater and to various Manhattan hot spots) in search of the answers to three riddles that have haunted him intimately:. One: the riddle of "the family curse." Two: the riddle of what drives him (or anyone) to be funny. Three: the riddle of what so cruelly tangled his unseverable bond with the beguiling, beaten orphan girl who became the impossible mother who raised him to Be Sweet.

Subjects

Topics

HumorBiographyWit and humorHomes and hauntsAmerican HumoristsChildhood and youthEssays (single author)

People

Roy Blount

Times

Other Editions

  • Be sweet: a conditional love storyA.A. Knopf1998-01-01

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