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It’s a well-worn tactic for writers dealing with the American South to dig out their Portable Faulkner for a taste of the old master’s pungently decorative perorations in order to parse the region’s peculiarities. In his deeply immersive and complex travelogue Deep South, Paul Theroux is seemingly no different...

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I loved this book. Theroux's look at so many different southerners was enlightening. It makes me want to visit the south again.

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