Blood and Grits

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Summary: Brilliant, Entertaining Essays
Review: This is simply the best collection of esays that I have ever read (including Emerson, and I love Emerson). Unfortunately, the book is as difficult to find as it is skillfully composed. Crews takes on a score of seemingly unrelated topics--Charles Bronson, truck driving, drugs, wilderness intrigues with aggressive rednecks, etc. But taken together, these tales paint a vivid portrait of our society, in all of its peculiar manifestations. This book is fastidious in its detail, astounding in its perception, and generous in its comedy.