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Bailey White
Title: Bailey White
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 2354 | Pages: 10.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
Bailey White
The Remedy: Southern Humor
In Mama Makes Up Her Mind and Other Dangers of Southern Living, Sleeping at the Starlite Motel and Other Adventures on the Way Back Home, and Quite a Year for Plums, author Bailey White offers readers an inviting refuge from our increasingly fast-paced society. Using humor, White transports the reader to the rural South, where the setting, the way of life, and the characters the reader meets contrast strikingly with life …showed first 75 words of 2354 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2354 total…largest sense, written with an…often self-mocking compassion” (Trachtman).
White opens up for her readers a different world, one without many of the annoying traits of modern society: dull, gray scenery, traffic, impersonal contact, alarms, cell phones, male-dominance, uniformity, pretension, conflict, materialism, censorship, isolation, and superficial relationships. She reminds us of a life that, in most places, has ceased to exist and invites us to return to its comforts in the pages of her books.
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