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Love in Tennessee (2009)

af John Bowers

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Love in Tennessee is a fictional memoir of the author's growing up in small town in East Tennessee. From earliest memory he dreams of the larger world outside, especially the glowing, beckoning lights of New York, but the lessons he learned, essentially in the varieties of love - its sorrows, dramas, and ennoblements - he learned in his long los...… (mere)
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Reading this book made it pretty clear that John Bowers is older than I guessed. I looked it up; he’s eighty-six.

The reason I looked is that he makes references to people and things I don’t know about – often, using them like adjectives in the story he’s telling:

…like Maggie of Jiggs and Maggie…

Uniforms went away or had a Ruptured Duck on them…

Their models were June Allyson and Deanna Durbin…

…latest episodes of Jack Armstrong, the All American Boy…

…always a handsome, taller figure resembling Tab Hunter.

I was now Trevor Howard in the Outcasts of the Islands.

…and despite myself, I thought of Greta Garbo in Camille

I’ve seen Garbo (but not in Camille), Many others, of course, I got; being only one and a half generations removed. This use of specific references grounds the text in culture, and given how many I understood, might even be good: but I wonder how much I missed – there were many more references than I’ve shown here which I just had to gloss over.

The book is in three parts; the first part contains tall tales – mostly pleasant enough but a bit more sexualized than my own experience growing up: perhaps I’m repressing something. Part two has more tall tales (all of which are pretty entertaining, yet fairly disconnected – I had no trouble putting the book down and picking up up later while I was reading these sections.) Part two also has about five pages of what seems to be a much less embellished history of the narrator’s parents and grandparents. This stuck out, as if it were too serious to be joking about. Part three, however, was enthralling. I had to stop reading in the middle and as soon as I could, I picked it up again. Part three tells the story of the narrator’s first real love. It’s got lots of humor, but a sad ending. Afterwards I poured myself a drink and sat for a minute. That’s just the way it hit me.

I liked the book. I might say it was uneven, trying to be both large and truthful, and a little over-sexed, but I really liked it. Judging from this book, Bowers is the sort of guy I want to hang out with – he’s got a lot to say. I’ll read more of his work, no question. ( )
  mak3 | Jun 29, 2015 |
A charming, simply-written, coming-of-age story set in Tennessee. Bower’s youthful narrator recalls the trials and tribulations from his life in regards to his search for love. The book really captures the essence of pre-teen and teenage emotions toward love and sex (two connected, yet, at times, wholly separate things.) The prose reflects the simplicity of youth that is complicated by deeper ideas of love. It was a great novel to study concerning the growth of a young male’s understanding of both his place in the world and his hopes for finding (and bedding) his one true love. ( )
  JosephJ | Dec 16, 2011 |
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.
This is one of the best books I read last year. If you like Southern literature, coming of age stories, and nostalgia, you will love Love in Tennessee. ( )
  DanielDiPlacido | Dec 5, 2011 |
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.
I got this book quite a while ago from the Early Reviewers program, and kept picking it up, wanting to read it so I could review it, but the battered old car on the cover kept putting me off. When I finally did pick it up I was impressed with the quality of the writing, and enjoyed the portraits of the different characters in his town. Toward the end, though, I realized it was trying to be a coming-of-age story, disguised as fiction, but the author just couldn't manage to get close enough to his own feelings - perhaps because he passively let the love of his life get away. So the book didn't quite work: it was unfocused, trying to be two things at once. ( )
  bobbieharv | Aug 29, 2010 |
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I just couldn't get into this disjointed book. I gave it several attempts but found myself daydreaming instead of trying to slog my way through. ( )
  mdianne | Jul 23, 2010 |
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Will its greeting be courteous or rough?
Will it alter my life altogether?
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Like Tennessee, New York is as much a state of mind as a place.
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Love in Tennessee is a fictional memoir of the author's growing up in small town in East Tennessee. From earliest memory he dreams of the larger world outside, especially the glowing, beckoning lights of New York, but the lessons he learned, essentially in the varieties of love - its sorrows, dramas, and ennoblements - he learned in his long los...

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