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Literary Dallas (Literary Cities Series)
enlarge	Creator: Frances Brannen Vick Publisher: Texas Christian University Press Category: Book List Price: ~~$29.50~~ Buy New: $18.84 You Save: $10.66 (36%) New (25) Used (3) from $18.84 Media: Hardcover Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 493 Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7 Dimensions (in): 10 x 7.3 x 1.8 ISBN: 0875653820 Dewey Decimal Number: 810.8097642812 EAN: 9780875653822 ASIN: 0875653820 Publication Date: November 2008 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Editorial Reviews: Product Description Known as "The Emerald City," Dallas has its own rich heritage peculiar to its founding on the prairies and the Trinity River, and editor Frances Brannen Vick has collected a cornucopia of all things Big D in ILiterary Dallas,/I the third in TCU Press's "literary cities" series.P There is C. C. Slaughter who helped make Dallas a banking center; John Rosenfield, who made his city a haven for performing arts; Evelyn Oppenheimer, who made her career reviewing books; not to mention Frank X. Tolbert, both Chili King and writer.P Natalie Ornish writes of the merchants who made Dallas a city where haute couture is Icomme il faut,/I but, where, as Prudence Macintosh avers, it is also possible to live a perfectly happy life and never wear a ball gown.P Historians and journalists have interpreted the city for generations, and you will find A. C. Greene, Bob Compton, Stanley Walker, Kent Biffle, Paul Crume and Jay Milner, among others.P The pivotal event in Dallas was the Kennedy assassination, and Vick researched the journalists, writers, poets and observers who tackled this subject, including Jim Lehrer, Bryan Woolley, and Lawrence Wright, to name a few.P Fiction set in Dallas has been wide and deep. Authors explore various backdrops, and from a Catholic church to an English manor to local bars--and all the places in between--Dallas is covered.

Customer Reviews: What a Banquet! January 6, 2009 This is a delightful book which not only sheds light on Dallas and its denizens, but on this part of America and what fascinating people live here. The humor, pathos, challenges we meet, joys we celebrate, sorrows we endure, history we have made are all here in this collection so well chosen by editor Frances Vick. Some selections are to be read over and over, and out loud to someone who, sadly, does not own the book.br / Knowing Dallas November 30, 2008 If anyone knows the Dallas literary scene, past and present, it's Fran Vick. She's been part of it for years, knows everyone, and they know her. And she's put together a great collection that covers Dallas in all its variety--from the truly literary to journalism and beyond. The pivotal section on JFK's assassination, central to the book and, alas, to Dallas 20th-century history, fascinates me. Some of the writing is extraordinary. This isn't the kind of book you read from front to back--you dip and pick and choose and keep it on the bedside table. And it's a great gift for Dallas residents--and, heck, even for those of us from rival Fort Worth.

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