Growing Up in the South (Signet Classics)

Something about the South has inspired the imaginations of an extraordinary number of Americas best storytellersand 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 adulthoodin other words, about growing up in the South. Flannery OConnors 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 Southernand their writing is indisputably wonderful.