The Courting of Marcus Dupree

The Courting of Marcus Dupree

by Willie Morris
The Courting of Marcus Dupree

The Courting of Marcus Dupree

by Willie Morris

Paperback(Reprint)

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Overview

At the time of Marcus Dupree’s birth, when Deep South racism was about to crest and shatter against the Civil Rights Movement, Willie Morris journeyed north in a circular transit peculiar to southern writers. His memoir of those years, North Toward Home, became a modern classic. In The Courting of Marcus Dupree he turned again home to Mississippi to write about the small town of Philadelphia and its favorite son, a black high-school quarterback. In Marcus Dupree, Morris found a living emblem of that baroque strain in the American character called “southern.”

Beginning on the summer practice fields, Morris follows Marcus Dupree through each game of his senior varsity year. He talks with the Dupree family, the college recruiters, the coach and the school principal, some of the teachers and townspeople, and, of course, with the young man himself. As the season progresses and the seventeen-year-old Dupree attracts a degree of national attention to Philadelphia neither known


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780878055852
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Publication date: 10/01/1992
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 464
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Willie Morris (1934-1999) was the award-winning author of many books, including North Toward Home, My Dog Skip, and After All, It's Only a Game.

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