{"product_id":"9781617030703","title":"Stories from Home","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrimming with his rich humor, Jerry Clower's book manifests the unsurpassed southern art of yarn spinning. It shows as well the nature of the man for whom good storytelling is more than just show business.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNashville's funniest man had a serious side. Deep in the merry heart of this comic entertainer were the codes and values that made him an esteemed humanitarian.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe was named America's best country comic for nine years in a row and was called \"the funniest American storyteller since Will Rogers\" and \"the Mouth of the Mighty Mississippi.\" This boisterous, down-home man's loving, extroverted manner and his forthright display of positive feelings for others arose from the substance of sober, rock-solid regional values he gained from maturing in the rural South. \u003ci\u003eStories from Home\u003c\/i\u003e embraces both Jerry Clowers, the funny man and the serious man, and shows his anecdotal humor in the mainstream of the South's great oral tradition of folktales and narratives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJerry Clower's hilarious stories about possum hunting, coon dogs, and the rambunctious Ledbetter clan were standards in his stage routines, videos, and albums. In \u003ci\u003eStories from Home\u003c\/i\u003e many of his fans' favorite Clower tales are included. Here, too, is a long interview in which he explored his beliefs and tells how he gained firm convictions about race, religion, education, and family as well as an intolerance of negativism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47051343790320,"sku":"9781617030703","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781617030703_p0.jpg?v=1763849718","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781617030703","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}