Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. The famed humorist tackles motherhood, family ties, and the nature of being Southern and funny in this bittersweet memoir unlike any other. First edition (first printing). A fine, unread copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page.

Roy Blount Jr. -- Georgia boy turned New York wit, lover of baseball and interesting women, bumbling adventurer, literary lion, salty-limerick virtuoso and impassioned father -- journeys into the past and his psyche (also all the way to China, sixty feet underwater and to various Manhattan hot spots) in search of the answers to three riddles that have haunted him intimately: One: the riddle of "the family curse." Two: the riddle of what drives him (or anyone) to be funny. Three: the riddle of what so cruelly tangled his unseverable bond with the beguiling, beaten orphan girl who became the impossible mother who raised him to Be Sweet.

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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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Bookseller: Eureka Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 286648
Title: Be Sweet: A Conditional Love Story
Author: Blount Jr., Roy
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used
Jacket Condition: Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0679400540
ISBN 13: 9780679400547
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1998

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