![]() ![]() This audiobook is both a memoir and a meditation on jokes and how they educated, delighted, and occasionally horrified him as he grew. Andrew Hudgins imagines himself in the life of a now largely forgotten poet, Sidney Lanier, who served as a soldier for the Confederacy. Hudgins tells and analyzes the jokes that explore the contradictions in the Baptist religion he was brought up in, the jokes that told him what his parents would not tell him about sex, and the racist jokes that his uncle loved, his father hated, and his mother, caught in the middle, was ambivalent about. : After The Lost War: A Narrative (9780395457139) by Hudgins, Andrew and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. And jokes opened him up to the serious, taboo subjects that his family didnt talk about openlyreligion, race, sex, and death. Because Hudginss father, a West Point graduate, served in the US Air Force, his family moved frequently he learned to relate to other kids by telling jokes and watching how his classmates responded. Since Andrew Hudgins was a child, he was a compulsive joke teller, so when he sat down to write about jokes, he found that he was writing about himselfwhat jokes taught him and mistaught him, how they often delighted him but occasionally made him nervous with their delight in chaos and sometimes anger. ![]()
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