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“Few people, in or out of the South, tell stories with the freshness and gusto of Dean Lancaster; fewer still speak or write the English language with his exactness of idiom and colloquial vividness.
“The Better Parts of a Life gives us the man at his most engaging. Who could possibly ask for more than this feast in which the past comes to life through the roast beef of lively narrative and the spice of precisely recalled detail?”

— George Core, editor, The Sewanee Review

“The Better Parts of a Life is a thoughtful and winning depiction of a time lost—particularly in the early chapters. It reveals a man growing up in a harder, yet kinder, world. Robert S. Lancaster lets us see the pleasure and grace in the simple and the ordinary while showing us that our high pleasures now rarely measure up to the low pleasures of earlier days.”

— Sam Pickering, author of Still Life and other books of essays

Proctor’s Hall Press Sewanee, Tennessee

0-9627687-1-5