{"product_id":"long-time-leaving-isbn-9781582434582","title":"Long Time Leaving","description":"In this acerbic, eminently quotable book, humorist Roy Blount Jr. focuses on his own dueling loyalties across the great American divide. Scholarly, raunchy, biting, and affable, Blount takes on topics ranging from chicken fingers and yellow dog Democrats to Elvis's toes while sharing some experiences of his own: chatting with Ray Charles, meeting an Okefenokee alligator, imagining Faulkner's tennis game, and being swept up, sort of, in the filming of \u003ci\u003eNashville.\u003c\/i\u003e His yarns, analyses, and flights of fancy transcend all standard shades of Red, Blue, and in between.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlount's sidesplitting, irreverent musings may not end our tacit Civil War at long last, but they do clarify, or aptly complicate, divisive delusions on both sides of the long–standing national rift. \u003ci\u003eLong Time Leaving\u003c\/i\u003e is a comic ode to American variety and a droll assault on complacency both North and South from one of the most definitive and esteemed humorists of our time.\u003cb\u003eRoy Blount Jr.\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of nineteen other books. He is a panelist on NPR’s \"Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me!\" a columnist for \u003ci\u003eOxford American\u003c\/i\u003e, a contributing editor to \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, and president of the Authors Guild. He lives in western Massachusetts.","brand":"Counterpoint","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303267651813,"sku":"NP9781582434582","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781582434582.jpg?v=1767731704","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/long-time-leaving-isbn-9781582434582","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}