LEADER 04081nam 2200601 450 001 9910460575703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8173-8875-3 035 $a(CKB)3710000000459281 035 $a(EBL)2130369 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001530317 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12629662 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001530317 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11529929 035 $a(PQKB)10986743 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2130369 035 $a(OCoLC)915941284 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse46990 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2130369 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11085702 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000459281 100 $a20150814h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCaptain Billy's troopers $ea writer's life /$fWilliam Cobb 210 1$aTuscaloosa, Alabama :$cThe University Alabama Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (209 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8173-1876-3 327 $aChapter 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 330 $a"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. "--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aAuthors, American$y20th century$vBiography 606 $aAlcoholism$vBiography 606 $aStorytelling$zAlabama 606 $aHydrocephalus 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAuthors, American 615 0$aAlcoholism 615 0$aStorytelling 615 0$aHydrocephalus. 676 $a813/.54 700 $aCobb$b William$f1937-$01054279 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460575703321 996 $aCaptain Billy's troopers$92486735 997 $aUNINA