Home Truths: A Deep East Texas Memory

Home Truths: A Deep East Texas Memory - Paperback

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Home Truths: A Deep East Texas Memory - Paperback

Home Truths: A Deep East Texas Memory - Paperback

by Gerald Duff
$21.95
$21.95

Book Overview

Novelist Gerald Duff grew up both in Polk County, in Deep East Texas, and in Nederland, near the Gulf Coast, two drastically different areas in terms of social and economic status, and the way they interact. These communities shaped the way Duff thought and lived, causing him to build up certain false personae to fit in with the crowd. These changes and more are described within the pages of Duff's new memoir, Home Truths: A Deep East Texas Memory.

From dealing with intrusive family members to judgmental classmates to marital bliss and misery, Duff's memoir describes situations familiar to anyone who has ever lived in a small town. Experiences unfamiliar to the youths of today include growing up during World War II and the descriptions of propaganda tactics, hunting for your own meals, and dealing with the social mores of the 1950s and 1960s. Other occurrences however, such as working a summer job and the awkwardness of first dates, speak to people of every generation, young and old.

Early in life Duff learned to tell lies as a survival mechanism against his meddling family and occasionally cruel classmates. He describes the ordeal of hiding both his domestic situation and his talent for the written word. Duff's talents for lies and half-truths helped him not only to discover a hidden talent within himself, but also a future career.
ISBN9780875654355
Author Gerald Duff
PublisherTexas Christian University Press
GenreBiography
FormatPaperback
PublishedSeptember 2011
LanguageENG- English
Pages160
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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GERALD DUFF'S short stories and poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Southwest Review, Sewanee Review, Georgia Review, Missouri Review, and other magazines. In addition to a memoir and two collections of poetry, he has published seven novels and a collection of short stories, Fire Ants, which was a finalist for the Jesse Jones Award for Fiction in 2008 from the Texas Institute of Letters. The title story won the Cohen Award from Ploughshares and was reprinted in The Editors' Choice: New American Stories and cited in The Best American Short Stories.

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