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Noodling for Flatheads: Moonshine, Monster Catfish, and Other Southern Comforts

Noodling for Flatheads: Moonshine, Monster Catfish, and Other Southern Comforts


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The Old South is slow to give up its secrets. Though satellite dishes outnumber banjo players a thousand to one, most traditions haven't died; they've just gone into hiding. Cockfighting is illegal in forty-eight states, yet there are three national cockfighting magazines and cockpits in even the most tranquil communities. Homemade liquor has been outlawed for more than a century, yet moonshiners in Virginia still ship nearly one million gallons a year. Some of these pastimes are ancient, others ultramodern; some are illegal, others merely obscure. But the people who practice them share an undeniable kinship. Instead of wealth, promotion, or a few seconds of prime time, they follow dreams that lead them ever deeper underground. They are reminders, ultimately, that American culture isn't as predictable as it seems-that the weeds growing between its cracks are its most vital signs of life. In these masterfully crafted essays, Burkhard Bilger explores the history and practice of eight such clandestine worlds. Like John McPhee and Ian Frazier, he introduces us to people whose spirit of individualism keeps traditions alive, from a fifty-something female coon hunter who spends 340 nights a year in the woods to a visionary frog farmer and a man whose arms are scarred by the eighty-pound catfish he catches by hand. A fluid combination of adventure, history, and humor, Noodling for Flatheads is evocative, intelligent, and wonder-fully weird-a splendid antidote to the sameness of today's popular culture.

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Gordon Grice, author of "The Red Hourglass" "Noodling for Flatheads" is terrific. Bilger's style is accessible and somehow unobtrusive even when he's delivering a knock-out bit of description, a feat he manages every five pages or so. I love the intelligence of these essays. They start in the quirkiest places and end up deep in the human heart. Just wonderful writing.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780684850108
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Publisher Imprint: Simon & Schuster
  • Height: 222 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 431 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0684850109
  • Publisher Date: 19 Sep 2000
  • Binding: Other book format
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Moonshine, Monster Catfish, and Other Southern Comforts
  • Width: 146 mm


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