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Literary Fort Worth
Judy Alter
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Description for Literary Fort Worth
Paperback. For more than a century Fort Worth writers have written well about a city too often dismissed as a semi-rural cow town. This collection of novel extracts, short stories and poetry catches the city's atmosphere and odd bits of history. Editor(s): Alter, Judy; Lee, James Ward. Num Pages: 308 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 32. Weight in Grams: 839.
Aware that some may see the title of this volume as an oxymoron, James Ward Lee argues in his ""Argumentative Introduction"" that for more than a century Fort Worth writers have written well about a city too often dismissed as a semi-rural cow town. Writers have celebrated its world of cattle and oil, to be sure, but many have seen other sides of Fort Worth - the country club set, the literati, the artists and artisans, the musicians, the intellectuals, and the whole minority sub-culture that has given a cosmopolitan tone to the Queen City of the Prairies. Fort Worth ... Read more
Aware that some may see the title of this volume as an oxymoron, James Ward Lee argues in his ""Argumentative Introduction"" that for more than a century Fort Worth writers have written well about a city too often dismissed as a semi-rural cow town. Writers have celebrated its world of cattle and oil, to be sure, but many have seen other sides of Fort Worth - the country club set, the literati, the artists and artisans, the musicians, the intellectuals, and the whole minority sub-culture that has given a cosmopolitan tone to the Queen City of the Prairies. Fort Worth ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Texas Christian University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
308
Place of Publication
Fort Worth, United States
ISBN
9780875652535
SKU
V9780875652535
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About Judy Alter
JUDY ALTER is the author of fiction and nonfiction for both adults and young readers, as well as an enthusiastic cook, blogger, and reader of mysteries. She has won awards from the Texas Institute of Letters, Western Writers of America, the National Cowboy Museum and Hall of Fame, and an Owen Wister Award for lifetime achievement from WWA. Judy was ... Read more
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