Size: 6x0x9; A collection of poems and photographs through which the author

Size: 6x0x9; A collection of poems and photographs through which the author recalls his youth in the American South during the 1940s and 50s. Poems describe the author's memories of life in rural Mississippi, including snakes, cotton, food, courtship, weddings, worship, and funerals. James A. Autry (Nights Under a Tin Roof, Confessions of an Accidental Businessman), the son and grandson of Mississippi Baptist ministers, is a former Fortune 500 executive, author, and poet whose work has had significant influence on leadership thinking. His book Love and Profit: The Art of Caring Leadership won the prestigious Johnson, Smith & Knisely Award as the book that had the most impact on executive thinking in 1992.

Size: 9.2 x 6 x 0.6 inches; Dust jacket condition: Good. Jacket creased. with

Size: 9.2 x 6 x 0.6 inches; Dust jacket condition: Good. Jacket creased. with several short tears at top edge. Nights Under a Tin Roof is the first book written by James A. Autry, a southerner, a Mississippian whose travels and career as Air Force Pilot, newspaper reporter, and national magazine editor and publisher have taken him far from his boyhood in the Deep South, both in geographical distance and personal perspective. Now, through his recollections, he has returned to the nurturing presence of his Mississippi roots, to examine the forces which shaped him. His ringing, clear verse--with its wonderful synthesis of people, places, and voices--focuses on the simple rhythms of rural life familiar to Americans of all regions. To accompany Autry on his private odyssey is to attend country funerals, weddings, church revivals, family reunions, courtships, dinners on the grounds--all rendered with a stunningly vivid recreation of images drawn from a unique American heritage. As explained in the Foreword, Autry calls his verse "pieces" of recollections "because their shape comes to me as stories and then as pieces of a larger story." These recollected moments of the 1940s are not the product, however, of the traditional Southern expatriate "because they were not seen with the adult eye or filtered through the sensitivities of the educated." Thus has Autiy achieved a remarkably dense texture of memory which forges with readers of all ages and backgrounds what John Mack Carter, in his Introduction, calls "kinship." Carter attributes this immediate bond of sensibility between author and reader to a shared experience of "a time that promised to go on forever. We were living in an endless summer that owed nothing to tomorrow, and we were bound by neither urgency nor despair....For all of us lucky enough to know who we are, and those of us still eager to find out, Jim Autry has laid this roof of tin." 98 pages.

24 cm, 88 pages. Illus., front DJ flap price clipped, slight wear to DJ edges. Introduction by John Mack Carter. Signed by the author.

24 cm, 88 pages. Illus., front DJ flap price clipped, slight wear to DJ edges. Introduction by John Mack Carter. Signed by the author.

24 cm, 88, illus., piece missing in rear DJ. Introduction by John Mack Carter. Inscribed by the author. This is the author's first book.

24 cm, 88, illus., piece missing in rear DJ. Introduction by John Mack Carter. Inscribed by the author. This is the author's first book.