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Stapleton, Nebraska, Welch, West Virginia, Hermann, Missouri, Crystal City, Texas, Corydon, Indiana, Pella, Iowa, Hope Arkansas - Seven American towns, each with its own dreams, its aspirations and desperations, its sense of limits.
Excerpt: I spent the better part of a month in deep southwestern Arkansas - in Hope (population 10,290), the seat of Hempstead County - and the sun shone every day of my stay but one, and the nights were mild, and many of them were moonlit, and almost every night I fell asleep to the long, slow, faraway whistle of a freight train.
I arrived in mid-March, in the first full rush of spring, and the day I left, in the second week of April, the pell-mell Southern spring was over and the endless Southern summer had begun. I saw the jonquils bloom and fade, and the azaleas and the yellow bells and the tulip trees, the wisteria and the redbuds, the peach trees and the apples, and I watched the big willow oaks that line the streets burst almost visibly into shading leaf. Only the glory of the magnolias - and there are magnolias in every yard and park and cemetery in Hope - was yet to come.
CONDITION: Hard Cover with DJ, FIRST EDITION, signed by Berton, For Margery (Rice) with love and kisses, Amagansett 1982, DJ shows wear will add fresh mylar cover.
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