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Item Details
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FAMILY BIBLE
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| By: |
Melissa J. Delbridge, Patricia Hampl, Carl H. Klaus |
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Hardback |
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£22.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1587296519 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781587296512 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 April, 2008 |
| Series: |
Sightline Books: The Iowa Series in Literary Nonfiction |
| Pages: |
154 |
| Description: |
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," the author introduces us to the people in her own family bible. She shows us what happened in the "stew of religion and sex" that was 1960s Tuscaloosa. |
| Synopsis: |
"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 Delbridge endows each with her startling and original interpretation. In this disarmingly unguarded and unapologetic memoir, she shows us what really happened in the "stew of religion and sex" that was 1960s Tuscaloosa.Whether telling of her father's circumspect "hunting trips," her mother's sudden, tempestuous moves across town in the middle of the night, or coming to terms with her own sexuality on the banks of the river, Delbridge is the real star of this entertaining memoir.Crackling with wit, frighteningly smart, both drop-dead funny and wrenchingly sad, "Family Bible" is a stunning personal history. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
University of Iowa Press |
| Returns: |
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