{"product_id":"north-toward-home-isbn-9780375724602","title":"North Toward Home","description":"With his signature style and grace, Willie Morris, arguably one of this country's finest Southern writers, presents us with an unparalleled memoir of a country in transition and a boy coming of age in a period of tumultuous cultural, social, and political change. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003cb\u003eNorth Toward Home\u003c\/b\u003e, Morris vividly recalls the South of his childhood with all of its cruelty, grace, and foibles intact.  He chronicles desegregation and the rise of Lyndon Johnson in Texas in the 50s and 60s, and New York in the 1960s, where he became the controversial editor of \u003cb\u003eHarper's\u003c\/b\u003e magazine.  \u003cb\u003eNorth Toward Home\u003c\/b\u003e is the perceptive story of the education of an observant and intelligent young man, and a gifted writer's keen observations of a country in transition. It is, as Walker Percy wrote, \"a touching, deeply felt and memorable account of one man's pilgrimage.\"\"\u003cb\u003eNorth Toward Home\u003c\/b\u003e is the finest evocation of an American boyhood since Mark Twain.\"--\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e (London)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Vivid sketches of personas and places, moments when the spirit of things is caught with affecting precision.... And...prose that is extraordinarily clean, flexible and incisive.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cb\u003eNorth Toward Home\u003c\/b\u003e is a classic.\"--William StyronWillie Morris's last book, \u003cb\u003eMy Cat Spit McGee\u003c\/b\u003e (0-375-50321-8) was published by Random house in Fall 1999.  He lived in Jackson, Mississippi, until his death in 1999.Author of My Dog Skip","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302105239781,"sku":"NP9780375724602","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780375724602.jpg?v=1767733879","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/north-toward-home-isbn-9780375724602","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}