Hometown Texas

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Brown and Holley are interested in place and what makes people who they are. With particular interest in how people take the hand they've been dealtfate, family, circumstance, luckand craft a life for themselves, the authors celebrate the grit and gumption of these Texas originals. Introducing quirky characters and tenacious spirits, Holley's stories seek out the personality of the small town while Brown's photographs capture the essence of a changing landscape. Hometown Texas aims not to be nostalgic or sentimental but rather to show readers an unknown Texasone that, while not vanishing, is certainly on the wane.
Organized into five topographical, geographic, and cultural sectionsEast, West, North, South, and Centralthree dozen stories and more than eighty complementary images work to create a parallel narrative to reveal what Brown has described as the "collective, various, remarkably complex soul that makes Texas unique."
Hometown Texas is an exploration across miles and cultures, of well-traveled roads and forgotten byways, deep into the heart of Texas.

Reviews

Praise for Peter Brown's West of Last Chance

"A major book whose implications and historic significance will increase for years to come." Rick Bass, author of The Lives of Rocks

"An achievement of sublime alchemy. By its end, my notions of beauty, space, and time were irrevocably altered." Mark Spragg, author of An Unfinished Life

"Somehow his pictures inhabit the viewer's brain, take up residence there . . . the latest chapter in a magnificent body of work." Geoff Dyer, author of The Ongoing Moment

Praise for Joe Holley's Slingin' Sam: The Life and Times of the Greatest Quarterback Ever to Play the Game

"A valuable contribution to football history." Booklist

Author Bio

Peter Brown has photographed landscapes and small towns for twenty-five years. He is the author of Seasons of Light, On the Plains, and West of Last Chance, a collaboration with novelist Kent Haruf that won the Dorothea LangePaul Taylor Prize. His work has been collected by the Menil Collection, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, MoMA New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Getty Museum, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He teaches photography at the Glasscock School at Rice University and lives in Houston.