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    Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany
    Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany
    Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany
    Audiobook14 hours

    Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany

    Written by Charles Portis

    Narrated by T. Ryder Smith and Susan Bennett

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    Best known for his glorious comic novels—including the American classic True Grit—Charles Portis was also a prolific essayist, travel writer, and newspaper reporter. Now, for the first time, these writings—journalism, short fiction,
    memoir, travel stories, and even a play—have been brought together in Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany. The collection encompasses the breadth of Portis’s fifty-year writing career, covering topics as varied as road tripping in Baja,
    Elvis’s visits to his aging mother, and his own boyhood in Arkansas. Also included in Escape Velocity are Portis’s three-act play Delray’s New Moon, “Damn!” a rare short story from 1957, and tributes by Donna Tartt, Wells Tower, Ron Rosenbaum,
    Ed Park, and Roy Blount Jr. While fans of Charles Portis’s sly and distinctive humor, quirky characters, and keen ear for detail will be thrilled at this new addition to their libraries, Escape Velocity will also serve as an essential introduction to those not yet familiar with his work.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMay 3, 2022
    ISBN9781705062227
    Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany
    Author

    Charles Portis

    Charles Portis lives in Arkansas, where he was born and educated. He served in the Marine Corps during the Korean War. As a reporter, he wrote for the New York Herald-Tribune, and was also its London bureau chief.

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      Worth picking up for "Delray's New Moon" alone. Not a lot happens in this play, but that's beside the point. Or maybe that's the point. Anyway, I haven't laughed out loud at some writing since - well, since last time I read a Portis book. The Motel vignettes are really good, too.Hopefully the editor will unearth more stuff from Charles' attic.