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- catalog abstract "Billy Mitchell is twenty-two years old, college educated, and on the verge of entering high society - or whatever "high society" Tuscaloosa, Alabama, has to offer a young man in 1972. But when he falls in love with an inmate at his father's mental institution, Billy must either muster the courage to elope with his new love (which involves kidnapping her) or accept a prescribed - and unwelcome - role within the Southern patriarchy. In the struggle to make sense of his. Situation, Billy uncovers a painful and complex past - including his own racist sentiments toward Nigel, his childhood companion, and his mother's death in a burning car with her lesbian lover during their flight from Tuscaloosa twenty years earlier. W. Glasgow Phillips has written a sensitive, sensual, and often hilarious new book in the tradition of the Southern novel that simultaneously offers a poignant critique of the genre. It is remarkable that a writer so young. Should approach such complex subject matter with this much subtlety, originality, and humor. No doubt Tuscaloosa will become a minor classic; it heralds the birth of a new voice, one that promises to be heard for years.".
- catalog contributor b5344703.
- catalog coverage "Alabama Fiction.".
- catalog coverage "Tuscaloosa (Ala.) Fiction.".
- catalog created "1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
- catalog description "Billy Mitchell is twenty-two years old, college educated, and on the verge of entering high society - or whatever "high society" Tuscaloosa, Alabama, has to offer a young man in 1972. But when he falls in love with an inmate at his father's mental institution, Billy must either muster the courage to elope with his new love (which involves kidnapping her) or accept a prescribed - and unwelcome - role within the Southern patriarchy. In the struggle to make sense of his.".
- catalog description "Should approach such complex subject matter with this much subtlety, originality, and humor. No doubt Tuscaloosa will become a minor classic; it heralds the birth of a new voice, one that promises to be heard for years.".
- catalog description "Situation, Billy uncovers a painful and complex past - including his own racist sentiments toward Nigel, his childhood companion, and his mother's death in a burning car with her lesbian lover during their flight from Tuscaloosa twenty years earlier. W. Glasgow Phillips has written a sensitive, sensual, and often hilarious new book in the tradition of the Southern novel that simultaneously offers a poignant critique of the genre. It is remarkable that a writer so young.".
- catalog extent "190 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Tuscaloosa.".
- catalog identifier "0688128610".
- catalog isFormatOf "Tuscaloosa.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : W. Morrow,".
- catalog relation "Tuscaloosa.".
- catalog spatial "Alabama Fiction.".
- catalog spatial "Alabama".
- catalog spatial "Tuscaloosa (Ala.) Fiction.".
- catalog subject "813/.54 20".
- catalog subject "Families Alabama Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Lesbians Alabama Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Man-woman relationships Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PS2566.H528 T87 1994".
- catalog subject "Psychiatric hospital patients Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Young men Fiction.".
- catalog title "Tuscaloosa : a novel / by W. Glasgow Phillips.".
- catalog type "Bildungsromane. gsafd".
- catalog type "Domestic fiction.".
- catalog type "text".