Full name: Long Time Leaving: Dispatches from Up South

Author: Roy Blount Jr. Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Essays, Humor, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780307266187 9781582434582 0307266184 1582434581

This time Blount focuses on his own dueling loyalties across the great American divide, North vs. South. Scholarly, raunchy, biting and affable, ol' Roy takes on topics ranging from chicken fingers to yellow-dog Democrats to Elvis's toes. And he shares experiences: chatting with Ray Charles, rounding up rattlesnakes, watching George and Tammy record, meeting an Okefenokee alligator (also named George, or Georgette), imagining Faulkner's tennis game, and being swept up, sort of, in the filming of Nashville. His yarns, analyses, and flights of fancy transcend all standard shades of Red, Blue, and in between.