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Looking for Andy Griffith - by Evan Dalton Smith (Hardcover)

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  • Andy Griffith (1926-2012) is one of North Carolina's most beloved exports, capturing America's heart as Sheriff Andy Taylor.
  • About the Author: Evan Dalton Smith's writing has appeared in the LA Times, LA Review of Books, Paris Review, New Yorker, Slate, and elsewhere and has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, Millay Arts, and MacDowell.
  • 224 Pages
  • Biography + Autobiography, Entertainment & Performing Arts

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"Andy Griffith (1926-2012) was one of North Carolina's most beloved exports for decades, capturing America's heart as Sheriff Andy Taylor. Evan Dalton Smith was born in Asheboro, North Carolina a few decades after Andy, just over an hour south of Griffith's hometown of Mount Airy. Both were small-town boys who grew up in similar places, where the counties were dry and the churches plentiful. But for both, there was darkness, crushed hopes, and tragedy, hidden just below the surface. For Smith and many of his generation in North Carolina, Andy Griffith was like the air--everywhere, all the time, a part of daily life. Even after he left the state, Smith always felt the pull of home and the lingering ghost of Andy alongside it. This is an exploration on celebrity and the self, on home and what that means when you leave it, and why we love and admire the people we do--even if we've never met them--all told through the entwined lives of iconic actor Andy Griffith and writer Evan Dalton Smith. It is through Smith's telling of Griffith's life that he finds his own story, one that is both informed by and freed from the legacy of one of North Carolina's most famous sons"--



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Andy Griffith (1926-2012) is one of North Carolina's most beloved exports, capturing America's heart as Sheriff Andy Taylor. Evan Dalton Smith was born in the North Carolina Piedmont over four decades after Andy, just an hour south of Griffith's hometown of Mount Airy. Both were small-town boys who grew up in similar places, where the counties were dry and the churches plentiful. But for both, there was darkness, crushed hopes, and tragedy, hidden just below the surface.

For Smith and many generations in North Carolina, Andy Griffith was like the air--everywhere, all the time, a part of daily life. Even after he left the state, Smith always felt the pull of home and the lingering ghost of Andy alongside it. This is an exploration on celebrity and the self, on home and what that means when you leave it, and why we love and admire the people we do--even if we've never met them--all told through the entwined lives of iconic actor Andy Griffith and writer Evan Dalton Smith. It is through Smith's telling of Griffith's life that he finds his own story, one that is both informed by and freed from the legacy of one of North Carolina's most famous sons.



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"A comprehensive examination into the life and career of actor Andy Griffith . . . [that] is intended to offer a glimpse into the impact of both Griffith and The Andy Griffith Show on the author's life. . . . [S]uitable for inclusion in any academic or local public library with a focus on North Carolina cultural history."--North Carolina Libraries



"A poignantly candid memoir . . . . Shot through with admiration and grief for all the father figures Smith ever loved, this unique, at times wistfully lyrical memoir is a moving celebration of fatherhood as well as a warm tribute to the lessons all fathers, real and imagined, have to teach us."--Kirkus Reviews



"An excellent book."--New York Magazine



"Evan Dalton Smith's Looking for Andy Griffith is not so much a cross between biography and memoir as a gorgeous collision. In prose shot through with gentle humor and gut-wrenching grief, Smith writes about the turbulent aftermath of his divorce, all the while steering us toward the devastations and triumphs in Griffith's life. A powerful and ingenious meditation on fatherhood, loss, and self-discovery."--Rebecca Donner, New York Times bestselling author of All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days



"In a narrative blending memoir and biography, Smith offers strength and hope as he recounts the image and reality of a man he admires and who struggled in some of the same ways he does. I enjoyed this book immensely."--Daniel Wallace, author of Big Fish and This Isn't Going to End Well: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew



"Smith bounces his life against Griffith's to see where the sparks fly. Their twined lives get meted out in vignettes, in short capsules glancing on Griffith's career, his fan base, his cultural legacy, North Carolina history, Smith's shambolic post-divorce existence, and, perhaps most of all, 'our desire and nostalgia for things that didn't exist.' . . . A surfeit of pain courses through this book, but, as Smith reminds us, a similar river trickled through Mayberry."--Jonathan Miles, Garden & Gun



"This coming-of-middle-age story chronicles Smith's search for validation while offering readers a profound glimpse into the complicated nature of Andy Griffith the man and Andy Griffith the character. A tender and brutal panegyric about one of America's most beloved icons."--Lily Hoang, author of Changing and A Bestiary




About the Author



Evan Dalton Smith's writing has appeared in the LA Times, LA Review of Books, Paris Review, New Yorker, Slate, and elsewhere and has been awarded residencies at Yaddo, Millay Arts, and MacDowell.

Dimensions (Overall): 7.75 Inches (H) x 5.33 Inches (W) x .92 Inches (D)
Weight: .69 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 224
Genre: Biography + Autobiography
Sub-Genre: Entertainment & Performing Arts
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Format: Hardcover
Author: Evan Dalton Smith
Language: English
Street Date: May 28, 2024
TCIN: 90283062
UPC: 9781469678986
Item Number (DPCI): 247-33-9601
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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