South to a Very Old Place

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The highly acclaimed novelist and biographer Albert Murray tells his classic memoir of growing up in Alabama during the 1920s and 1930s in South to a Very Old Place.

Genres: NonfictionMemoirBiographyBiography MemoirClassicsAfrican AmericanHistory

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