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inner strength and above all is a survivor. This is a story to be read, and eryoyed, by all.
Jones’ story begins in a section hand house along the railroad tracks where electricity and plumbing belonged only to those living on the other side of the tracks. On the one hand Jones proudly introduces us to his hardworking, hardscrabble poor Southern family and, on the other, he is always looking across those tracks and imagining “a different life than the one 1 had.”
In his twenties, he discovers a passion for acting matched only by his passion for drinking; lives on the edge through the 1960s and 70s at East Carolina College, the University of North Carolina and the theater circuit. He immerses himself in the civil rights movement (“it was time to take a stand"); lus life held together by rock, country and folk music (“If you see me there is a song in my head"). Jones saw himself as some kind of blend between a Marlon Brando tough guy, the writer Thomas Wolfe and Hank Williams.
For me, the best aspect of Jones' book is his own emancipation from “a ‘Redneck’ Southern boy raised in the
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