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Be Sweet
A Conditional Love Story
by Roy Blount
ISBN: 0156006820
ISBN-13: 9780156006828
Format: Paperback
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Summary
An autobiographical look at the life of a humorist who is also a bachelor grandfather. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
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"...Blount's autobiography is fashioned by a talented writer at the top of his game; and it is real sweet, too."
-- Kirkus
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Harvest Books
Published date: 1999
Edition: 1th edition
Size: 5.25 x 8 inches
Weight: 0.7 pounds
Pages: 329
Publisher's Notes
"My mother loved me to pieces, as she often said," writes Roy Blount Jr., "and I'm still trying to pick up the pieces." In the book his readers have been waiting for, our generation's master of full-hearted humor lays open the soul of his life story. Blount-Georgia boy, New York wit, lover of baseball and interesting women, bumbling adventurer, salty-limerick virtuoso, and impassioned father-journeys into his past, and his psyche (and also to China, Manhattan, and sixty feet underwater) in search of the answers to three riddles that have haunted his life: one, the riddle of "the family curse"; two, the riddle of what drives him, or anyone, to be funny; and three, the riddle of what so cruelly tangled his bond to the beguiling orphan girl who became the impossible mother who raised him to Be Sweet. Sardonic and sentimental, hilarious and grieving, brazen and bashful, tough and tender, honest and wayward, Be Sweet resonates with the complex but bouncy chords of a whole man singing, clinkers and all.
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Be Sweet: A Conditional Love Story
Roy Blount Jr
Harvest Books. Used - Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! ( more information) Offered by Better World Books (United States)
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Jr., Roy Blount
Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.: Harvest Books. Minimal Wear Present. 0156006820 Fine Trade Paperback Book. In Excellent Condition with Very Minimal Wear Present. 0000004655 _ . Fine. 1999. Trade Paperback. ( more information) Offered by Centurion Books (United States)
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Roy Blount Jr
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Blount, Roy, Jr
San Diego: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1999. Very minor corner wear. Nice, firm book. Trade Paperback. Very Good. ( more information) Offered by BEJAYS Books (United States)
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Orlando, Florida, U.S.A.: Harvest Books, 1999 Softcover. Sound, clean & nice copy, light rubbing/edgewear to wraps.. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. ( more information) Offered by The Book Women (United States)
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Harvest Books, May 6, 1999. Paperback. GOOD. Biographies & Memoirs : Regional U.S. : South ( more information) Offered by Pioneer Book (United States)
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San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1999. Clean and tight - unused copy - BRAND NEW!!. Trade Paperback. New. ( more information) Offered by Scholar and Poet Books (United States)
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Harvest Books, 5/6/1999. Paperback. LikeNew/x. Splendid copy - unmarked, bright and clean with uncreased spine. ( more information) Offered by Cameron Park Books (United States)
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Be Sweet : A Conditional Love Story
Blount, Roy, Jr
Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1999. Trade Paperback. Good. Used book with average wear. A little flare to the corners. Smooth spine. Clean, tight and square. ( more information) Offered by Second Glance Books (United States)
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Toronto, ON, Canada: Harcourt. 1999. First Harvest Edition. S Soft Cover. Very Good. clean, tight, unmarked copy. ( more information) Offered by Old Village Bookshop (United States)
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Toronto, ON, Canada: Harcourt Brace & Co, 1999. Just a little rubbed at corners, this copy is otherwise clean, straight and tight.. First Trade Paperback Printing. Trade Paperback. Fine/Pictorial Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by Athena's Book Shop (United States)
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Blount, Roy Jr
New York: Harcourt Brace/Harvest Books. 1999 1st ed. thus. SIGNED on title p. by author. 329pp. paperback 8vo: Fine. The quondam Georgia humorist's 13th book, "a wild tell-all, a raucous, unflinching memoir as funny as anything he's ever written," according to The New York Times. The Boston Globe reviewer said: "If Sophocles had married Dorothy Parker, I'm not certain what their child might have looked like, but he should have sounded something like Roy Blount, Jr. ( more information) Offered by Auldfarran Books, IOBA (United States)
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Roy Blount Jr
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Jr., Roy Blount
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