Crackers Author:Roy Blount Jr. CRACKERS is not just about President Carter. Just because Roy Blount happens to be from Georgia too, on the contrary, CRACKERS stars Carters by the dozen, including Carters that Roy Blount had to invent so he could write about some unimpeachably authentic Carters. — Which is not to suggest that all the really authentic people in CRACKERS are excl... more »usively Blount creations. Gore Vidal is not and neither is Kissin' Jim Folsom nor Jerry Jeff Walker. There's even a real possum named Stonewall - although there is no way of knowing if there ever really was a woman who once got herself glued to a dry-cleaning business.
If all this sounds pretty exceptional, then it sounds just like CRACKERS, a bracing look at America by an observer as necessary and American as Will Rogers, namely Roy Blount Jr.« less