Me, Boo and The Goob: A Southern Adventure

William L Garner

ISBN 10: 0999891618 / ISBN 13: 9780999891612

Published by William Garner, 2018

About this Item

This book is an often hilarious story about three young boys in the 1960s trying to make their way in the world of the South. They get themselves into a lot of mishaps, some trouble, and even hunt ghosts in a dilapidated old mansion. They foil a crime in one of their many adventures. The book will have you reminiscing about your own childhood, when friends hung together, doing what kids do and reaping the consequences.The author bills this as fiction, but it reads like a series of connected essays that form a first person, non-fiction account of (possibly) his own childhood (albeit with a generous helping of fish story creative embellishment, and maybe a flat out whopper or two). His sense of place is strong, his voice is authentic. The first in the Southern Adventure Series, Me, Boo and the Goob is a little gem of a book destined to become a beloved classic and will one day be an Oscar-winning blockbuster of a movie, la Forrest Gump.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Me, Boo and The Goob: A Southern Adventure
• Publisher: William Garner
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0999891618
• ISBN 13: 9780999891612
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 4th Edition
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

This book is a very humorous southern adventure about three young boys in the 1960s trying to make their way in the world of the South. They get themselves into a lot of mishaps, some trouble, and even hunt ghosts in a dilapidated old mansion. They foil a crime in one of their many adventures. The book will have you reminiscing about your own childhood, when friends hung together, doing what kids do and reaping the consequences.

The author bills this as fiction, but it reads like a series of connected essays that form a first person, non-fiction account of (possibly) his own childhood (albeit with a generous helping of "fish story" creative embellishment, and maybe a flat out whopper or two). His sense of place is strong, his voice is authentic.

The first in the Southern Adventure Series, Me, Boo and the Goob is a little gem of a book destined to become a beloved classic and will one day be an Oscar-winning blockbuster of a movie, á la Forrest Gump.

About the Author

William Garner was born in Memphis, Tennessee. Following a disastrous and near tragic house fire at their home in Senatobia, Mississippi on the day after Christmas 1960, his family moved to Jonesboro, Arkansas where his father practiced medicine. William is a 1963 graduate of Miss Macky's Kindergarten in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Following a devastating and deadly tornado that struck Jonesboro in May of 1968, the family moved to Memphis for three years while his father pursued a residency in Radiology before returning to Jonesboro in 1971.Mr. Garner was asked to graduate as a Junior from Jonesboro High School in 1975. He attended Arkansas State University before being asked to leave both it and it's branch campus at Beebe, Arkansas. Eventually, despite his best efforts, Mr. Garner was graduated from The University of Mississippi in 1980 where he had enjoyed skydiving, hunting, fishing, water skiing, scuba diving, music, liquor, raw oysters, boiled shrimp, barbecue, football, women and occasionally attended class.Known for his unique approach to southern humor and memoirs, Mr. Garner now lives quietly on the Gulf Coast enjoying life with his long suffering wife, his grown children and his grandsons.