Curmudgeon in corduroy : the best of Jerry Flemmons' Texas / introduction by Mike Cochran.

"These essays were previously printed in the Fort Worth star-telegram and Southern living"--Title page verso.

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And Flights of Harlots Sing Thee to Thy Rest -- Autumn, We Hardly Knew Ye -- A Friend Falls in the Forest -- Putting the Peas in Prosperity -- The Shadow of Death -- Of Dimple And Dixie And Dump -- Dawn Comes Sunny Side Up -- Out of the Frying Pan and into the Internet -- Fry, Fry Again -- A Boy's Life, before Litigation -- Have Rubber Gun, Will Travel -- On the Square It's Half Past Then -- The Way the Cracker Crumbles -- % @!# and Stones May % @!# My Bones -- A Dance of Myth and Mane -- More Do-Si-Do Than Pas de Deux -- Death and Extra Innings -- East Texas Brigadoon -- Welcome to Culture Gulch -- Before "Dominoes" Meant Pizza -- Shades of Yesteryear -- How Sweet the Sound -- A Cowboy's Kingly Crown -- Giddy Up -- Way Up! -- Makin' Bacon.

Jerry Flemmons' Texas is sometimes a place of sadness, even tragedy, sometimes a place of high jinx and great jokes, but most often, it's a place of vanishing traditions and long-ago days.

English.

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