Editor's Warning: The following blurb may cause disbelief, denial, and dyspepsia in readers expecting a sober summary of this book of essays... Like spirits out of the fog of Charleston itself, the st
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With any luck, such a writer as David Grant appears only once in a generation. Grant's early promise was nurtured by his parents. His father was a double-agent for major studio financial officers whose penetrations of the Screenwriters Guild saved millions for corporate America and contributed heavily to the war effort, and who, on his own, exported English language subtitles to the Japanese when the war ended. Grant's mother, a poetry-lover addicted to the sublimity of Edgar A. Guest (
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Charleston..."The Holy City"... began as an enclave of Europe established in 1670. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Historic District, Holy City, South Carolina, South Carolinians, Palmetto Bug, Black Rook, Duck People, New York, King Street, Black King, Calhoun Street, Creighton Dumbstruck, United States, Conversation Festival, Remarkability Smythe, Siegfried Stetson, The Odyssey New!
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Charleston..."The Holy City"... began as an enclave of Europe established in 1670. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Historic District, Holy City, South Carolina, South Carolinians, Palmetto Bug, Black Rook, Duck People, New York, King Street, Black King, Calhoun Street, Creighton Dumbstruck, United States, Conversation Festival, Remarkability Smythe, Siegfried Stetson, The Odyssey New!
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- Moby Dick (Bibliotheque Des Grands Classiques)(Illustrated) (French Edition) by Melville on page 99
- Moby Dick (Usborne Classics) by H Melville on page 99
- Moby Dick (French Edition) by Herman Melville on page 99
- A Man in Full by Tom Wolfe on page 43
- American Citizenship by Richard Gross on page 149
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- Hope to Die by David Grant in Back Matter
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