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After twenty years in New York City, a prize-winning writer takes a long look back at his hometown of Mobile, Alabama. In "Back Home: Journeys through Mobile," Roy Hoffman tells stories--through essays, feature articles, and memoir--of one of the South''s oldest and most colorful port cities. Many of the pieces here grew out of Hoffman''s work as Writer-in-Residence for his hometown newspaper, the "Mobile Register," a position he took after working in New York City for twenty years as a journalist, fiction writer, book critic, teacher, and speech writer. Other pieces were first published in the "New York Times," "Southern Living," "Preservation," and other publications. Together, this collection comprises a long, second look at the Mobile of Hoffman''s childhood and the city it has since become. a Like a photo album, "Back Home" presents close-up portraits of everyday places and ordinary people. There are meditations on downtown Mobile, where Hoffman''s grandparents arrived as immigrants a century ago; the waterfront where longshoremen labor and shrimpers work their nets; the back roads leading to obscure but intriguing destinations. Hoffman records local people telling their own t

Who reads Back Home : Journeys Through Mobile?

Author

Roy Hoffman, 1953-

Publisher

University of Alabama Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780817354312

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Travel, History, Biography