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1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Library Alabama Classics
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Library Alabama Classics.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Donald R. Noble; Mud on the Stars; To the Reader; It's New Year's Eve; 1929: ""The Good Livers""; 1929-1933: Pajamas and Lifebuoy; 1933: The Gover'mint's a-Comin'!; 1934-1935: Cossack and Bolshevist; 1934-1938: World's End; 1936-1938: Defense and Defeat; 1939: Bunker Hills; 1940-1941: Two Gasoline Cans; 1942: The New Year. |
| Summary |
William Bradford Huie's first novel, Mud on the Stars, is largely autobiographical and is set in the years 1929-1942. As in many of his later books, the theme here is of the education of the inexperienced youth, which is, after all, the quintessential American story. Drawing on his own boyhood, Huie gives the reader a detailed account of rural life and race relations in the TennesseeValley in the early years of this century, including a vivid picture of college life at The University of Alabama during the Great Depression. Through a careful weaving of characters and events, fact and fiction, |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Depressions -- 1929 -- Southern States -- Fiction.
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Depressions. |
| Chronological Term |
1929 |
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Southern States. |
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Alabama -- Fiction.
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Alabama. |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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Electronic books.
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Fiction.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Huie, William Bradford. Mud on the Stars. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2015 9780817355845 |
| ISBN |
9780817389345 electronic book |
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0817389342 electronic book |
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9780817355845 |
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