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Women in a man's world, crying essays
Record details
- ISBN: 9780817311599
- ISBN: 0817311599 (cloth : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0817382690 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780817382698 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xii, 160 p.)
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electronic resource - Publisher: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2002.
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| General Note: | Multi-User OldControl:muse9780817382698 Multi-User. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Women in a man's world, crying -- The girls' locker room -- Her breast -- Women in prison -- Nails -- Girls playing hardball -- The father-daughter game -- A southern Thanksgiving -- Donor -- A simple life -- Recipes and the friends who went with them -- Barbie -- School lunch -- Michael Jordan's midlife crisis -- Buying Annie -- Crossing the viaduct -- My mother's brain -- Race car drivers and writers -- December, a grandmother's dying -- Nixon -- Jackie -- The mouse -- The south catches on to AIDS -- The AIDS care team -- The family reunion -- Grits -- The southern art of feeding -- Museum -- The disappearing south -- The star of wonder -- Jan, my cousin -- The apple tree -- Mother's day -- Other people's hell -- Normandy -- Letters from the war -- On marriage -- A feminist Easter -- Eros -- The moon, twenty five years later -- Walking on water -- Writers don't wear petticoats -- Imagination's birth -- The horse -- The house within. |
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| System Details Note: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 |
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Summary:
This thoughtful, engaging collection showcases the best nonfiction prose produced by one of the nation's most observant and incisive writers. This collection of warm, heartfelt essays from award-winning novelist Vicki Covington chronicles the multitude of "in between" moments in the writer's life. These are her stolen moments in between the writing of four novels-Gathering Home, Bird of Paradise, Night Ride Home, and The Last Hotel for Women; in between coauthoring the edgy memoir Cleaving: The Story of a Marriage with her husband Dennis Covington; in between raising two daughters; i.
