A New Life Stories and Photographs from the Suburban South

by Harris, Alex; George, Alice Rose

• ISBN13: 9780393040302
• ISBN10: 0393040305
• Edition: 00
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-10-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

"How do you write about third generation Snopeses who have moved to Memphis and joined an encounter group?" asked Walter Percy in his book Signposts in a Strange Land. A New Life answers this question, combining the stories of eleven of the best new writers of southern fiction with contemporary work from extraordinary southern photographers. These short stories and surprising images portray the South not as we might imagine or remember it, but as it is lived--in condos and malls, on golf courses and interstates, in family rooms and bedrooms, and in the hearts and minds of southern people. This volume brings together recent southern stories by Richard Barusch, Bobbie Ann Mason, Lee Smith, Robert Olen Butler, and Mary Ward Brown, among others, coupled with photographic essays. These revealing pictures and stories cover a broad geographical and emotional territory and give us a revealing portrait of the new look and feel of the contemporary South.

Table of Contents

Introduction
from the series Homefront	p. 1
And All Our Wounds Forgiven	p. 13
from the series Scenes from Early Morn Drive: Teen Years	p. 19
Tandolfo the Great	p. 31
Portrait Commissions	p. 42
The Interpretation of Dreams	p. 53
from the series Relationships	p. 65
Tobrah	p. 75
from the series At the Edge of the City	p. 92
A Woman's Place	p. 105
from the series Suburban Atlanta, 1994	p. 117
The Trip Back	p. 125
from the series Vietnam in Versailles	p. 137
Pulling Jane	p. 148
from the series Photographs from Florida, 1989-94	p. 157
Pretty Please	p. 168
from the series Stealing Home	p. 176
A New Life	p. 189
from the series Family and Friends	p. 202
Dreamland	p. 210
from the series Construction of Suburbia and Aspects of New Roads	p. 223
Afterword: Toward a Creation Myth of Suburbia	p. 233
Contributors' Notes	p. 243
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