Graceland, At Last by Margaret Renkl - 9781571311856

Graceland, At LastNotes on Hope and Heartache From the American South\nAuthor(s): Margaret Renkl\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Milkweed Editions, United States\nImprint: Milkweed Editions\nISBN-13: 9781571311856, 978-1571311856\nSynopsis\nWinner of the Southern Book Prize\n\nWinner of the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay\n\nFor the past four years, Margaret Renkls columns have offered readers ofThe New York Timesa weekly dose of natural beauty, human decency, and persistent hope from her home in Nashville. Now more than sixty of those pieces have been brought together in this sparkling new collection.\n\nPeople have often asked me how it feels to be the voice of the South, writes Renkl in her introduction. But Im not the voice of the South, and no one else is, either. There are many Southsred and blue, rural and urban, mountain and coast, Black and white and brownand no one writer could possibly represent all of them. InGraceland, At Last, Renkl writes inste.