01828nam 2200409 n 450 99639024270331620200818224150.0(CKB)4940000000100471(EEBO)2240947555(UnM)99833066e(UnM)99833066(EXLCZ)99494000000010047119960103d1677 uy |engurbn||||a|bb|Gods sword drawn forth against drunkards and swearers[electronic resource] blasphemers of Gods Holy Name, whore-mongers, Sabbath breakers, and other lewd livers of all sorts. In which is set forth the abominable and beastly sin of drunkenness, with its attendant vices. In forty three terrible examples of Gods immediate judgements upon several drunkards, and other impenitent sinners. Necessary to be had in all houses, being a caution to young and old. By J. Srenock, B.D. Licensed and entred according to orderLondon printed for Joshua Conyers at the Black Raven in Duck Lane1677[2], 14 pImperfect; pages cropped and stained with some loss of text.Reproduction of the original in the British Library.eebo-0018VicesEarly works to 1800AlcoholicsReligious aspectsEnglandEarly works to 1800AlcoholismReligious aspectsEnglandEarly works to 1800GodWrathEarly works to 1800VicesAlcoholicsReligious aspectsAlcoholismReligious aspectsGodWrathSrenock J1015279Cu-RivESCu-RivESWaOLNBOOK996390242703316Gods sword drawn forth against drunkards and swearers2370161UNISA04093nam 2200601 450 991079759300332120230807221439.00-8173-8875-3(CKB)3710000000459281(EBL)2130369(SSID)ssj0001530317(PQKBManifestationID)12629662(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001530317(PQKBWorkID)11529929(PQKB)10986743(MiAaPQ)EBC2130369(OCoLC)915941284(MdBmJHUP)muse46990(Au-PeEL)EBL2130369(CaPaEBR)ebr11085702(EXLCZ)99371000000045928120150814h20152015 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrCaptain Billy's troopers a writer's life /William CobbTuscaloosa, Alabama :The University Alabama Press,2015.©20151 online resource (209 p.)Includes index.0-8173-1876-3 Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Chapter Nine; Chapter Ten; Chapter Eleven; Chapter Twelve; Chapter Thirteen; Chapter Fourteen; Chapter Fifteen; Chapter Sixteen; Chapter Seventeen; Chapter Eighteen; Chapter Nineteen; Chapter Twenty; Chapter Twenty-one; Chapter Twenty-two"In this audacious memoir, William Cobb reveals the tumultuous creative life of a distinguished practitioner of southern and Alabama storytelling. As poignant and inspiring as his own fiction, Captain Billy's Troopers traces Cobb's early life, education, and struggles with alcohol and the debilitating condition normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH). Like a curving river, the broad sweep of Cobb's turbulent life includes both startling cataracts and desultory eddies, leading sometimes into shadows or opening into unexpected sunlight. With unsentimental clarity, Cobb recounts coming of age in his native Demopolis in the churning middle years of the twentieth century. It's there he has his first tantalizing tastes of alcohol and begins to drink habitually. Readers then travel with Cobb to Livingston University (now the University of West Alabama) and then on to Vanderbilt University. Along the way, readers relish his first experiences of love and success as a writer, leading to a career as a professor of writing at Alabama College (now the University of Montevallo) in 1963. From there Cobb's struggles with alcohol and depression lead to elongated years of tumbling creative output and the collapse of his marriage. The summer of 1984 found Cobb in rehab, the first step in his path to recovery. His unflinching memoir narrates both the milestones and telling details of his intense therapy and years in Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). In the sober thirty years since, Cobb has published a string of critically praised novels and a prize-winning collection of short stories. The capstone of his comeback was winning the Harper Lee Award in 2007 for distinguished fiction writing. In 2000, shortly after retiring, Cobb developed NPH, which upset his sense of balance and triggered dementia symptoms and other maladies. Nine years later in 2009, brain surgery brought Cobb a dramatic recovery, which began the third act in his writing career. Vital, honest, and entertaining, Captain Billy's Troopers captures the life of an Alabama original. "--Provided by publisher.Authors, American20th centuryBiographyAlcoholismBiographyStorytellingAlabamaHydrocephalusAuthors, AmericanAlcoholismStorytellingHydrocephalus.813/.54BIO007000SEL006000bisacshCobb William1937-1510311MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910797593003321Captain Billy's troopers3742867UNINA