Download e-book for kindle: Captain Billy's Troopers: A Writer's Life by William Cobb

By William Cobb
ISBN-10: 0817318763
ISBN-13: 9780817318765
Like a curving river, the large sweep of Cobb’s turbulent lifestyles contains either startling cataracts and desultory eddies, best occasionally into shadows or beginning into unforeseen solar. With unsentimental readability, Cobb recounts coming of age in his local Demopolis within the churning heart years of the 20 th century. It’s there he has his first tantalizing tastes of alcohol and starts off to drink habitually. Readers then commute with Cobb to Livingston college (now the collage of West Alabama) after which directly to Vanderbilt collage. alongside the way in which, readers appreciate his first stories of affection and good fortune as a author, resulting in a profession as a professor of writing at Alabama university (now the college of Montevallo) in 1963.
From there Cobb’s struggles with alcohol and melancholy result in elongated years of tumbling inventive output and the cave in of his marriage. The summer season of 1984 came upon Cobb in rehab, step one in his route to restoration. His unflinching memoir narrates either the milestones and telling info of his severe remedy and years in Alcoholics nameless (AA). within the sober thirty years on account that, Cobb has released a string of severely praised novels and a prize-winning selection of brief tales. The capstone of his comeback was once profitable the Harper Lee Award in 2007 for unusual fiction writing.
In 2000, presently after retiring, Cobb built NPH, which disappointed his experience of stability and brought on dementia signs and different maladies. 9 years later in 2009, mind surgical procedure introduced Cobb a dramatic restoration, which begun the 3rd act in his writing profession. very important, sincere, and enjoyable, Captain Billy’s Troopers captures the lifetime of an Alabama original.
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