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1-878086-86-3
$23.95 hardcover
6 x 9
264 pages
Down Home Press
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Robert Inman
[writes] with humor, compassion, and a sense of baffling sadness....A
storyteller perched between the Old South and the New. --New York
Times Book Review
A writer of
ardent and prolific imagination....Inman's sense of place is palpable. --Washington
Post Book World
Inman is more
than a gifted Southern writer. He is a uniquely American author with
promise written all over the road ahead. --Dallas Morning News
Robert Inman likes to think
of himself as "just a small-town kid and a storyteller." Coming
Home is testament to that. Warm, funny, delightfully entertaining,
and often moving, this collection speaks to what matters not only to
Inman but to most Southerners--the things that touch heart and soul. In
it, Inman writes of growing up in Elba, Alabama, where "you get to
look people in the eye day after day and learn who they are and how to
get along with them." He writes of his grandmother, Mama Cooper,
his boyhood pal, "Booger" Winston, and quintessential
small-town characters such as Delbert Earle and Great Uncle Orester,
whose Southern wit and wisdom command a section of their own.
Like his ancestors--and most
Southerners--Inman has no hesitancy to offer strong opinions, but his
light shines brightest when he turns to that which is most deeply
personal--family, fatherhood, love--and writing, his true homecoming. In
Inman's first novel, Home Fires Burning, his main character Jake
Tibbetts, a cantankerous old newspaperman, found writing to be
confounding until he discovered its essential secret: "Most of the
business involved having something worth saying, and the rest depended
on saying it simply." In Coming Home, Inman proves that
truth.
about the author
Robert Inman spent more than a quarter of a century as a TV
journalist and news anchor before leaving in 1996 to write. He is the
author of three novels, Home Fires Burning, Old Dogs and
Children, and Dairy Queen Days, as well as seven screenplays,
two of which were Hallmark Hall of Fame presentations. He and his wife
live in Charlotte and Boone, North Carolina.
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