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 enlarge | Author: Kevin Sessums
Publisher: Picador
Category: Book
List Price: $14.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  46 reviews
Sales Rank: 223654
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.5 x 1
ISBN: 0312341024
Dewey Decimal Number: 920
EAN: 9780312341022
ASIN: 0312341024
Publication Date: March 4, 2008
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 just couldn't get into it June 19, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Due to some good reviews and awards, I decided to give this one a read and to be honest I just couldn't finish it. I'm not sure what exactly to pinpoint about it that bothered me--maybe it was the language, the turn of phrase, the overabundance of words you will need a dictionary to look up, or just the flow of the stories, something just kept me from really connecting with Mr. Sessums and his life story. Being from my own not so delightful Southern upbringing I thought at first I could relate to his bio but alas I couldn't. Sadly, I can not personally recommend this, but reading biographies really is a personal taste thing anyway. If you are thinking of buying this I would at least suggest you pick it up in the store and read 2 or 3 of the chapters first to see if it's for you or not.
 Brilliant evocation of our not so distant past May 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Kevin Sessums and I grew up in the same South at almost the same time. His memoir of those times touched me profoundly. It brought those strange transitory times back to my memory like Proust's Madeleines. I laughed and cried. I loved it. Can't wait for his next book!
We're All Sissy's at Heart May 9, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Arleeene! So damned funny.
I saw this book on a business trip at the airport in Dallas. After two days, the title wore on me and I sought out a bookstore and bought it. Poignant comes to mind. Reverent. Unabashedly true and faithful. As a straight Southern Male, sometimes reading this book was kind of embarrassing, but this was Kevin Sessum's life. He actually lived it, so the least I could do was read it. And it wasn't at all hard to read. There were moments where, on the plane coming home, I laughed out loud. There were other moments where tears were close to the surface. I felt for this little kid sissy and all he had to go through. This book reminded me of Crazy in Alabama in places...which is a good thing.
There are some slow points in the book, but I forgive the author his need to talk about some things. For as sure as the biy was a Sissy, the author was preparing us for some additional whacked out scene in which his childhood self was juxtaposed against the racist and stoic South of the 1960s.
The cover photo is the only interesting thing in this book May 6, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book was passed along to me with a warning that it wasn't very good - and I have to agree. Poor writing (seems half the book consists of annoying run-on sentences), poor narrative (it jumps around in time so much that you never know how old he is in any given chapter), and it was a chore to finish.
Half the book is 'oh, pity me' and the other is 'see how fabulous I am?'
Just wasn't that impressed March 19, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was looking foreward to reading this book, but frankly was disappointed. It all seemed a bit manufactured, as if somebody was repeating a story they had once heard their friend tell after he heard it from his grandmother. Perhaps the author is too far removed from the events. The book wasn't terrible, it was just one of the few books where it never once occured to me to lend it out to a friend.
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