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The Wisdom of Terry Kay
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• $18.95 NOW $9.50 hardcover
  
• 240 pages
• 1-892514-69-9 hardcover
• Essay

“Terry Kay's prose contains music and passion and fire..”—Pat Conroy

the book

Terry Kay is one of the South's most-loved and widely acclaimed novelists, perhaps most known for the best-selling book To Dance With the White Dog, which was adapted into a Hallmark film starring Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn and remains their top selling video. However, many readers are not aware of the astute social critic who rests behind the novelist's veil; at least not yet. Recognizing that Kay is such a fine essayist, critic, and humorist who has written for a wide array of publications for many years, Hill Street Press will bring together his many years of musing into this collection. In the collection, this critic at large captures us at our worst and our best, and all with a Southern accent-including collected commentary on such topics as advertising ("Revenge of the Blurbs"), the lottery ("Sucker Hunch"), self-help books ("If the Dysfunction Fits, Read It"), health insurance ("High Rate Robbery"), professional wrestling ("Lords of the Ring"), and so much more. A rare treat is Kay's first venture into fiction writing: "I Was a Teenage Quarterback, or the Hoo-Doo Voo-Doo on the Hut-Hut."

This collection proves that Kay's sense of power in words can be seen not only in his fiction, but in his nonfiction as well.

CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE

the author

Terry Kay has been an award-winning television writer-winning a Southern Regional Emmy-and print journalist for years. His other books include The Year the Lights Came On, After Eli, Dark Thirty, To Whom the Angels Spoke, The Runaway, and the recent bestseller The Kidnapping of Aaron Greene.

the praise

also of interest:  www.terrykay.com