Growing Up in the South - (Signet Classics) by Suzanne Jones (Paperback)

About the Book

This collection of stories and excerpts from 24 of the best storytellers and writers of modern Southern literature features "coming of age" stories by William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, and Eudora Welty. Features an Introduction by the editor. Reissue.

Book Synopsis

Something about the South has inspired the imaginations of an extraordinary number of America's best storytellers--and greatest writers. That quality may be a rich, unequivocal sense of place, a living connection with the past, or the contradictions and passions that endow this region with awesome beauty and equally awesome tragedy. The stories in this superb collection of modern Southern writing are about childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood--in other words, about growing up in the South. Flannery O'Connor's "Everything That Rises Must Converge," set in a South that remains segregated even after segregation is declared illegal, is the story of a white college student who chastises his mother for her prejudice against blacks. But black, white, aristocrat, or sharecropper, each of these 23 authors is unmistakably Southern--and their writing is indisputably wonderful.

Review Quotes

"An engaging collection... It succeeds splendidly."

About the Author

Suzanne W. Jones is a professor of American Literature and Women's Studies at the University of Richmond. The author of a number of essays about southern literature, she is also the editor of another collection of stories, Crossing the Color Line: Readings in Black and White, and two collections of essays, South to a New Place (with Sharon Monteith) and Writing the Woman Artist.