978-0-89587-154-1 1-58838-181-1 $37.50 hardcover 978-1-58838-184-2 1-58838-184-6 $27.50 paperback 8 1/4 x 9 5/8 272 pages NewSouth Books

This volume is an intimate collection of oral-history interviews capturing the lives of the people who were once the backbone of the rural South, in this case from Bullock County, Alabama.  The interviews are elevated to art by the skill of the interviewer/author, a native, who left the area after high school and became a college professor and well-known author in Kentucky but always maintained his roots in the community where he grew up. about the author Alabama native Wade Hall is professor emeritus of English at Bellarmine College in Kentucky.  Among his other books and plays is Hell-Bent for music: The Life of Pee Wee King.  Hall also serves as the founding editor of the Conecuh Series, a monograph series published by NewSouth Books.

Hardcover

Paperback