Be Sweet: A Conditional Love Story
Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Item #286648
ISBN: 0679400540
The famed humorist tackles motherhood, family ties, and the nature of being Southern and funny in this bittersweet memoir unlike any other. First edition (first printing). A fine, unread copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page.
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.
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