In this Book
- The Courting of Marcus Dupree
- Book
- 1992
- Published by: University Press of Mississippi
Beginning on the summer practice fields, Morris follows Marcus Dupree through each game of his senior varsity year. He talks with the Dupree family, the college recruiters, the coach and the school principal, some of the teachers and townspeople, and, of course, with the young man himself. As the season progresses and the seventeen-year-old Dupree attracts a degree of national attention to Philadelphia neither known nor endured since "the Troubles" of the early sixties, these conversations take on a wider significance. Willie Morris has created more than a spectator's journal. He writes here of his repatriation to a land and a people who have recovered something that fear and misdirected loyalties had once eclipsed. The result is a fascinating, unusual, and even topical work that tells a story richer than its apparent subject, for it brings the whole of the eighties South, with all its distinctive resonances, to life.
Table of Contents
- 1 More Than Football Itself
- pp. 15-19
- 2 Red Hill Peregrinations
- pp. 20-32
- 3 The Marcus Legend
- pp. 33-58
- 4 The Basement Is Not Deep
- pp. 59-73
- 5 Moist Talcum and Drugstore Perfume
- pp. 74-85
- 6 Tensions
- pp. 86-91
- 8 A Dollar to a Doughnut
- pp. 126-151
- 9 Summer of Darkness
- pp. 152-174
- 10 "I Run for Both of Us"
- pp. 175-199
- 11 He That Loseth His Life . . .
- pp. 200-216
- 12 In Residence with My Brother Pete
- pp. 217-234
- 13 Mississippi!
- pp. 235-251
- 14 The Judge Was Misinformed
- pp. 252-259
- 15 He Runs Wild
- pp. 260-272
- 16 Possum in the Hollow
- pp. 273-290
- 17 Choctaw Bowl
- pp. 291-305
- 18 Open Season for Courtiers
- pp. 306-310
- 19 Snowbound in Neshoba
- pp. 311-331
- 20 Big Money
- pp. 332-336
- 21 Sojourn in Texas
- pp. 337-346
- 22 Football Fratricide
- pp. 347-361
- 23 Philly Appreciates Him
- pp. 362-369
- 24 Nocturnal Disguises
- pp. 370-372
- 25 And Then There Were Four
- pp. 373-379
- 26 Puzzlements and Déjà Vu's
- pp. 380-390
- 27 Where Is He?
- pp. 391-395
- 28 Between the Walls
- pp. 396-403
- 29 The End of the Affair
- pp. 404-409
- 30 Soon the Town Would Watch Him Go
- pp. 410-420
- 31 The Reckoning
- pp. 421-450
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 451-452
- Postscript
- pp. 453-464