This Place of Memory: A Texas Perspective
- National Cowboy Hall of Fame Western Heritage Award for Short Fiction, 1992
April, 1992
Published
161
Pages
10 b&w photos.
Features
About Roach's This Place of Memory
“These personal essays, poems, fiction… are best savored… amid the quiet comforts of your own special place of memories. It can bring forth tears, as well as smiles, of remembrance and recognition. It can leave you yearning to go home again—to people and places that now live only in your heart.” —Dallas Morning News
“The perfect bedside companion… like fine candy—so good you may not be able to confine yourself to one or two pieces before bedtime. “ —Fort Worth Star-Telegram
“Offers some thought-provoking images and ideas about the notion of place, that home is where the heart is, whether that place is Dallas or Dimebox or somewhere that only exists in the back of the mind.” —Texas Observer
“Even if you aren’t a dyed-in-the wool Texan, this book will help you to understand Texans’ remembrance and longing for a people, a way of life that seemed to belong just to Texas.” —Denton Record-Chronicle
About the Editor
JOYCE GIBSON ROACH grew up in Jacksboro, Texas, where her rural roots in ranch country provide much of the substance of her writing in non-fiction, fiction, humorous narrative, musical folk drama and children’s stories. A member of the Texas Institute of Letters and member and past president of the Texas Folklore Society, she is also a two-time winner of the Spur Award from Western Writers of America and is the winner of the Carr P. Collins Award for non-fiction from the TIL. In her youth, Joyce rode barrel races and she made a fair hand at roundup, as long as she got to stay on horseback.
JOYCE GIBSON ROACH, a member of the Texas Institute of Letters and member and past president of the Texas Folklore Society and a fellow in the Texas State Historical Association, is also a two-time winner of the Spur Award from Western Writers of America and is the winner of the Carr P. Collins Award for non-fiction from the TIL.