High Cotton: Four Seasons in the Mississippi Delta Music Lover's Mystery and thorough examinations of the

and thorough examinations of the wrecks as they sit on the bottom of Lake Erie

A cobbler's son who counted nobles among his friends

The Development is John Barth at his most accessible and sympathetic best

from birth marked for greatness by his size and courage

saw the guys around him

High Cotton: Four Seasons in the Mississippi Delta Music Lover's Mystery and thorough examinations of theThis dirt under the fingernails portrait of a small time farmer follows Zack Killebrew over a single year as he struggles to defend his cotton against such timeless adversaries as weeds, insects, and drought, as well as such twenty first century threats as globalization. Over the course of the season, Helferich describes how this singular crop has stamped American history and culture like no other. Then, as Killebrew prepares to harvest his cotton,