Half of What I Say Is Meaningl Tapa dura - 2014

Mercer University Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Hardcover book Signed and Inscribed by the author, thus - Signed "Joseph Bathanti" on the title page and Inscribed on the half-title page, thus - "7/14/16 Boone, NC - For ___ (& in memory of ___) w/ vy best & in _?__ --- Joe Always." First Edition 2014 of "Half of What I Say is Meaningless: Essays" - published by Mercer University Press, Macon, Georgia. Fine condition both book and dust jacket. "The Will D. Campbell Award for Creative Nonfiction."

Hardback. New. Half of What I Say is Meaningless is a series of memoirs, set by turns in Joseph Bathanti's hometown of Pittsburgh as well as in his ultimate home in North Carolina where he landed in 1976 as a VISTA Volunteer assigned to the North Carolina Department of Correction. Though these essays are not queued chronologically, they form a seamless chronicle of contemplation on the indelible stamp of home, family, ancestry, and spirituality, regardless of locale. The book opens with "The Turf of Hankering," which tells the tale of Bathanti's leaving Pittsburgh for his VISTA training in Atlanta, meeting a Southern woman, and fellow VISTA he is destined to marry, his lurch into the American South where he would eventually make his beloved home, and his first attempts at becoming a writer. The fourteen essays are written in a voice that is always elevated, though conversational, wry, funny, quintessentially human, and laced with poetry.

Mercer Univ Pr, 2014. Hardcover. New. 172 pages. 9.00x6.25x1.00 inches.

Mercer University Press, 2014-06-30. Hardcover. Very Good. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page, NO personalization, 2nd personalized inscription on half title page by author, 1st printing of 1st ed., no other marks noted in text, hc with djAND AS ALWAYS SHIPPED IN 24 HOURS; and emailed to you a USPS tracking number on all orders; all books are sanitized and cleaned for your protection before mailing

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.