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Asbury, Herbert; Blount Jr., Roy (Foreword by) Up from Methodism
1560255706 / 9781560255703; In 1926, Herbert Asbury, great-great-nephew of Francis Asbury, the first American Bishop of the Methodist Church, submitted a chapter of his profane work-in-progress, an almost spiteful memoir of his boyhood in Farmington, Missouri to H. L. Mencken's American Mercury magazine. Mencken published "Hatrack," the story of the town prostitute. The Mercury was then banned in Boston at the incitement of the New England Watch and Ward Society as "bad, vile, raw stuff," and Mencken was arrested for selling copies on Boston Common. In its restrained, but unrelenting attack on religious bigotry, irrationality, and hypocrisy, this book retains its transgressive power today. In his mocking humor and plain-spun language, used to evoke a bygone South suffocating in its fear of pleasure and damnation, Asbury reveals his debt to another son of Missouri, Mark Twain. 142 pages. 5 1/2" x 8" high
Thunder's Mouth Press
New York, 2003, First Publisher's Edition
Soft cover
New
Book
003357;
Price:
8.28 USD
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