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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454154403321

Autore

Delbridge Melissa J. <1952->

Titolo

Family Bible [[electronic resource] /] / Melissa J. Delbridge

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2008

ISBN

1-58729-715-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (169 p.)

Collana

Sightline books

Disciplina

976.1/84063092

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Soggetti

Teenage girls, White - Sexual behavior - Southern States

School integration - Southern States

Incest - United States

Children of alcoholics - Alabama

Lesbians - Alabama

Electronic books.

Southern States Social conditions

Alabama Social life and customs 20th century

Tuscaloosa (Ala.) Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

""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