{"product_id":"there-aint-no-such-animal-and-other-east-texas-tales","title":"There Ain't No Such Animal and Other East Texas Tales","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe stories in this book are the kind you might hear sitting on the porch past dark listening to distant hounds after a fox in the southeast Texas bottoms  tales with some truth and some lies and much pleasure take in the telling and the listening  tales with a strong sense of place and people  rooted firmly in the oral tradition.  Sure enough  there aint no such animal as a completely honest man  as the title story shows. Other stories tell of justice as swift and sure as a mules kick  of epic brawls and the trials of courtship  of poachers  politicians  and preachers  of hogs and dogs and horse traders  of good neighboring and bad blood  of life and death and youth and age in southeast Texas as it was early in the twentieth century.  In the tradition of Frank Dobie and Fred Gipson  Bill Brett writes with the natural humor and wisdom of the folk themselves. His stories will delight anyone with an interest in folk life or with the inclination to stop and set a spell and listen to a good yarn.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44987598635061,"sku":"ByrdShop_0890960682","price":39.83,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780890960684.jpg?v=1770948769","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/there-aint-no-such-animal-and-other-east-texas-tales","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}