Family Bible

Delbridge, Melissa J 1952- (Author).

Summary: ""Swimming and sex seemed a lot alike to me when I was growing up. You took off most of your clothes to do them and you only did them with people who were the same color as you. As your daddy got richer, you got to do them in fancier places."" Starting with her father, who never met a whitetail buck he couldn't shoot, a whiskey bottle he couldn't empty, or a woman he couldn't charm, and her mother, who ""invented road rage before 1960,"" Melissa Delbridge introduces us to the people in her own family bible. Readers will find elements of Southern Gothic and familiar vernacular characters, but D.

Record details

ISBN: 1587296519
ISBN: 9781587296512
ISBN: 1587297159
ISBN: 9781587297151
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xx, 143 pages)
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Publisher: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2008.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:	Hurricane Creek -- Mimosa Park -- Shot rule -- Gun and bait -- Faith of our fathers -- The company we keep -- Under my saddle -- Billy boy -- Baptism -- Body of knowledge -- Girls turned in.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions unspecified
Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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
Action Note:	digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.