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Official Guide to Christmas in the South: Or, If You Can't Fry It, Spraypaint It Gold »

Authors: David C. Barnette
ISBN-13: 9780060850531, ISBN-10: 0060850531
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published: October 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: David C. Barnette

David C. Barnette celebrates Christmas in coastal Alabama with his wife, Ashley, and daughters Cailey and Sibley. He received his MFA in writing from Vermont College.

Book Synopsis

No place celebrates Christmas like Dixie, and with this charming, humorous guide, anyone can learn how to deck the halls, Southern style

It's the one time of the year when both the divine and debutantes take center stage in a perfect storm of hot glue and cheese grits: Christmas. But successfully navigating through the holiday season can be more complex than Santa's midnight journey. There are pitfalls hotter than any chimney — and social situations more slippery than any roof! But now The Official Guide to Christmas in the South has arrived to reveal the finer and sometimes unspoken details of Dixie etiquette.

Perfect for a true Southerner's coffee table or an imposter's survival guide, The Official Guide to Christmas in the South is the gift that will keep on regifting season after season.

Creative Loafing

"If you re not stopping traffic, you re not decorating hard enough. These...secrets of Southern yuletide will get you through the season."

1	Once-a-year opportunity	1
2	Christmas china and therapy	11
3	Decorating tips from car dealers	23
4	A casserole catechism	37
5	The divinity code	49
6	The gilt complex	59
7	Inside Christmas	69
8	Gifts that keep regiving	81
9	Party like it's $19.99	93
10	'Twas the night	107
	Epilogue : there's got to be a morning after	121