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The Bookmaker's Daughter: A Memory Unbound
ISBN: 9781557288219 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) This deeply felt memoir is a journey through family history, feminist insight, and southern mythology. In it a daughter reflects on the complicated and volatile love she and her father shared. Shirley Jean Abbott grew up in Hot Springs, Arkansas, in the 1940s and 50s and was the beloved daughter of Alfred Bemont Abbott, affectionately known as -Hat.- Hat wasn't a bookmaker in the literary sense, even though he allowed Shirley's mother to believe as much while they were dating. Rather, his craft was gambling, and his business was horse racing. Despite the corruption, which put food on... This deeply felt memoir is a journey through family history, feminist insight, and southern mythology. In it a daughter reflects on the complicated... |
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Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South
ISBN: 9781682260234 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) A classic that has been in print since its first publication in 1983, Womenfolks is both a personal memoir and a meditation on the often pernicious mythologies of southern cultural history. Shirley Abbott gives us the gritty, independent women of the backwoods, the South's true heroines, whose hardscrabble world is one of red dirt and hard work--a far cry from the hoopskirts and magnolias of southern lore. As honest, vibrant, and remarkable as the women whose stories illuminate these pages, Womenfolks draws a vivid portrait of a rural culture beset by poverty and sustained by...
A classic that has been in print since its first publication in 1983, Womenfolks is both a personal memoir and a meditation on the often pernic...
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