Description

Hungry Mind Press [Published Date: 1998]. Soft cover, 153 pp. First Hungry Mind Press printing (with full number line). In good+ condition. Glossy pictorial paper covers have light bumping and creasing to edges and corners with a bit of peeling to the corner tips. light overall scuffing to covers as well. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. [From back cover] Moonshine is an unforgettable portrait of an American original and the Carolina countryside where he plies his trade. For over thirty years, Garland Bunting has slid his "sweet potato shape - small at both ends and big in the middle" - onto the front seat of his beat-up pickup with the coon dogs in the back to ride around in pursuit of moonshiners in Halifax County, North Carolina. To get the best of bootleggers, Garland has peddled fish, buckdanced, delivered sermons, worked carnivals as a barker, dressed as a woman, cast a spell, feigned drunkenness, pretended to be an idiot, and sung songs such as "Sweetheart, Take Your Lips from Me So I Can Spit."