{"product_id":"the-courting-of-marcus-dupree-9780878055852","title":"The Courting of Marcus Dupree","description":"At the time of Marcus Dupree's birth, when Deep South racism was about to crest and shatter against the Civil Rights Movement, Willie Morris journeyed north in a circular transit peculiar to southern writers. His memoir of those years, \u003ci\u003eNorth Toward Home\u003c\/i\u003e, became a modern classic. In \u003ci\u003eThe Courting of Marcus Dupree\u003c\/i\u003e he turned again home to Mississippi to write about the small town of Philadelphia and its favorite son, a black high-school quarterback. In Marcus Dupree, Morris found a living emblem of that baroque strain in the American character called \"southern.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBeginning on the summer practice fields, Morris follows Marcus Dupree through each game of his senior varsity year. He talks with the Dupree family, the college recruiters, the coach and the school principal, some of the teachers and townspeople, and, of course, with the young man himself. As the season progresses and the seventeen-year-old Dupree attracts a degree of national attention to Philadelphia neither known nor endured since \"the Troubles\" of the early sixties, these conversations take on a wider significance. Willie Morris has created more than a spectator's journal. He writes here of his repatriation to a land and a people who have recovered something that fear and misdirected loyalties had once eclipsed. The result is a fascinating, unusual, and even topical work that tells a story richer than its apparent subject, for it brings the whole of the eighties South, with all its distinctive resonances, to life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWillie Morris\u003c\/b\u003e (1934-1999), a native Mississippian, came to national prominence in the early 1960s as the youngest-ever editor of \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e magazine. His first book, \u003ci\u003eNorth Toward Home\u003c\/i\u003e, became an instant classic. Among his other notable books are \u003ci\u003eNew York Days\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMy Dog Skip\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMy Mississippi\u003c\/i\u003e, published by University Press of Mississippi.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50872960614674,"sku":"9780878055852","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f216ecc3-49c0-45b1-b3b9-c8f5c98145fd.jpg?v=1737916014","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-courting-of-marcus-dupree-9780878055852","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}