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Curmudgeon in corduroy : the best of Jerry Flemmons' Texas

Title: Curmudgeon in corduroy : the best of Jerry Flemmons' Texas / introduction by Mike Cochran.
Author: Flemmons, Jerry.
Publication: Forth Worth : TCU Press, [2000], ©2000.

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Description

174 pages; 23 cm

Alternative Title

Best of Jerry Flemmons' Texas

Subject

Note

"These essays were previously printed in the Fort Worth star-telegram and Southern living"--T.p. verso.

Contents

And Flights of Harlots Sing Thee to Thy Rest -- Autumn, We Hardly Knew Ye -- A Friend Falls in the Forest -- Putting the Peas in Prosperity -- The Shadow of Death -- Of Dimple And Dixie And Dump -- Dawn Comes Sunny Side Up -- Out of the Frying Pan and into the Internet - Fry, Fry Again -- A Boy's Life, before Litigation -- Have Rubber Gun, Will Travel -- On the Square It's Half Past Then -- The Way the Cracker Crumbles -- %&@!# and Stones May %&@!# My Bones -- A Dance of Myth and Mane -- More Do-Si-Do Than Pas de Deux -- Death and Extra Innings -- East Texas Brigadoon -- Welcome to Culture Gulch -- Before "Dominoes" Meant Pizza -- Shades of Yesteryear -- How Sweet the Sound -- A Cowboy's Kingly Crown -- Giddy Up - Way Up! -- Makin' Bacon -- The Lowdown on Hunkering -- Mama Oswald -- News You Can Use and Use and Use ... -- "Pee-Can?" That's Nuts -- Amon's Will Be Done -- O,Say, Can You Secede? -- The Twang's the Thang, Ya'll -- Cleveland Colquitt, Where Are You? --
Tiptoe through the Pigweed -- The Eyes of Texas Were upon Them -- Touchdown in a Small Town -- If You Wish upon a Furculum -- A Paradox in Pearls -- West Texas Tree of Life -- Jerry Flemmons, 1936-1999.

ISBN

0875652174

LCCN

99057071

OCLC

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries