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long time leaving dispatches from up south
in this acerbic eminently quotable book humorist roy blount jr. focuses on his own dueling loyalties across the great american divide . scholarly raunchy biting and affable blount takes on topics ranging from chicken fingers and yellow dog democrats to elviss toes while sharing some experiences of his own chatting with ray charles meeting an okefenokee alligator imagining faulkners 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 . blounts sidesplitting irreverent musings may not end our tacit civil war at long last but they do clarify or aptly complicate divisive delusions on both sides of the long standing national rift . long time leaving is a comic ode to american variety and a droll assault on complacency both north and south from one of the most definitive and esteemed humorists of our time .