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When You Reach September: An Editor's West Florida Essays And Other Episodic Echoes, With Four More Fictional Stories:...
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by Jesse Earle Bowden
Sales Rank: 2098925
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List Price: $21.95
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 272 pages
Published by: Father & Son Pub May 2005
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0942407776
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0942407778
Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 6 x 1.2 inches
Weighs: 1.2 pounds
Product Review
Bowden has been a mainstay for history and historical preservation for years. His writing truly inspires people. -- Sandra Johnson, Pensacola Historical Society
Product Description
Evoking images of West Florida's Chipola River Country and other regions from Pensacola to Tallahassee, Jesse Earle Bowden's “ Song of Many Septembers” in this expanded Florida Classic Edition continues the nostalgic anthem that began with his popular 1979 memoir, Always the Rivers Flow - now too in a Florida Classic Edition. He expanded the theme with his best-selling West Florida novel, Look and Tremble, and his later Southern story collection, Embrace an Autumnal Heart. Lyrically portraying a Southern boyhood of the 1930's and 1940's, Bowden accents this edition with four fictional stories, “ Ruby's Café,” “Six Bushels of Corn,” “Atchafalaya” and “The Worm Grunters.” Memorable Pensacola News Journal columns and features trace the changing seasons, holidays, family gatherings, politics, vote-buying, country boy sports and humorous small-town stories. He profiles Southern novelists William Faulkner and Thomas Clayton Wolfe, legendary Florida Governor Fuller Warren and Southern humorist/philosopher Brother Dave Gardner; brings alive Civil War battles Shiloh and Gettysburg, Old South Charleston and Savannah, and wilderness Wakulla Springs, Dead Lakes and Okefenokee Swamp; salutes Don Sutton and his major league Hall of Fame destiny, and rides the Gulf Wind into railroading history. With many other sentimental journeys and many evocative drawings, Bowden again awakens the soul and spirit of the past colliding with the future in his native West Florida.
Reader Reviews
Jesse Earle Bowden is a southern writer in the style of Mississippian, William Faulkner, but without the need of holding a dictionary in one hand as you read. His imaginary town of Ring Jaw is typical the towns of southern Alabama and northwest Florida before air conditioning brought the outsiders down, ruining the tempo and flavor of the area. His mastery of the language of the thirties is on target, bringing to mind an era lost forever. "When You Reach September" embodies the wonderful writings that Bowden has published over the past sixty years. He has mastered the short story and keeps the reader spellbound as he sketches the stories of the "real" south, using true-to-life happenings that he fictionalizes so perfectly. When you read "Ruby's Cafe," "The Worm Grunters," or "Six Bushels of Corn" you are reliving the period that Bowden remembers so brillently and so clearly. You are there. In "I MIss," the reader recalls the six ounce bottles of Coca Cola with slivers of ice and roasted peanuts (you can taste the beverage and smell the memories)you recall the movies of his era, the Big Little Books and "I love a Mystery," an old radio program that "Raiders of the Lost Ark" refers to in that great story. On and on - one story better than the preceeding one. I have read Jesse Earle Bowden since the 1950s when he began writing for the Pensacola News Journal, and I have seen his writings mature to the master craftsman he is today. I highly recommend "When You Reach September." Reading it is time well spent.
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