Captain Billy's Troopers: A Writer's Life
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.81 (655 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0817318763 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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“William Cobb is an extraordinarily gifted raconteur who has written a memoir that reads like the best fast-paced and page-turning novel—a raw, poignant, and elegiac book of profound wisdom.” —Pat Conroy, author of South of Broad and The Death of Santini: The Story of a Father and His Son
To Be Honest and True Patti M. Marxsen Bill Cobb's writing life has run the gamut from success among the literati of the Big Apple to success in the academic world (sans PhD) to awards and accolades and a hard-earned place to stand in the literary landscape of his beloved South. For a few brief years in the 1970s I was a very young "faculty wife" floating among the fringe elements of the University of Montev. "I couldn't put this book down" according to Delores J. Jordan. I found the book to be a fascinating read. I didn't give him five stars because he is my friend, but because I sat down with the book, and I couldn't put it down. Bill takes us through his life as an aspiring author to an accomplished author. The one thing that impressed me is that he never sold himself out. He wanted to write Southern literature, and he succeeded in do
With unsentimental clarity, Cobb recounts coming of age in his native Demopolis in the churning middle years of the twentieth century. His unflinching memoir narrates both the milestones and telling details of his intense therapy and years in Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). As poignant and inspiring as his own fiction, Captain Billy’s Troopers traces Cobb’s early life, education, and struggles with alcohol and the debilitating condition normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH). From there Cobb’s struggles with alcohol and depression lead to elongated years of tumbling creative output and the collapse of his marriage. In the sober thirty years since, Cobb has published a string of critically praised novels and a prize-winning collection of short stories. Readers then travel with Cobb to Livingston University (now the University of West Alabama) and then on to Vanderbilt University. In this audacious memoir, William Cobb reveals the tumultuous creat