Summary: | After twenty years in New York City, a prize-winning writer takesa ""long look back"" at his hometown of Mobile, Alabama. In Back Home: Journeys through Mobile, Roy Hoffmantells stories--through essays, feature articles, and memoir--of one ofthe South's oldest and most colorful port cities. Many of the pieces heregrew out of Hoffman's work as Writer-in-Residence for his hometown newspaper, the Mobile Register, a position he took after working in New YorkCity for twenty years as a journalist, fiction writer, book critic, teacher, and s.
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