1.

Record Nr.

UNICASRAV0187198

Autore

Grazzini, Giovanni <1925-2001>

Titolo

Cinema '91 / Giovanni Grazzini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Roma \etc.!, : Laterza, 1992

ISBN

884203973X

Descrizione fisica

XV, 343 p. ; 21 cm.

Collana

Biblioteca universale Laterza ; 369

Disciplina

791.43

Soggetti

Film - 1991 - Recensioni

Cinematografo - Storia - 1991

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790899603321

Autore

Childers Sarah Beth <1982->

Titolo

Shake terribly the earth : stories from an Appalachian family / / Sarah Beth Childers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, Ohio : , : Ohio University Press, , 2013

ISBN

0-8214-4468-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Collana

Race, ethnicity, and gender in Appalachia

Classificazione

LCO000000

Disciplina

814/.6

Soggetti

Appalachians (People) - Social life and customs

Authors, American - 20th century

Appalachian Region Religious life and customs

Appalachian Region Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.



Nota di contenuto

O glorious love -- Shorn -- Through a Train window -- My dead-grandmother essay -- Scissors -- Ghost siblings -- Garbage-bag charity -- At his feet as dead -- Give 'em Jesus -- Hot girls in short skirts -- Shake terribly the earth -- November leaves -- Boat stories: three generations -- The Tricia has crashed -- Kite string.

Sommario/riassunto

Sarah Beth Childers grew up listening to stories. She heard them riding to school with her mother, playing Yahtzee in her Granny's nicotine cloud, walking to the bowling alley with her grandfather, and eating casseroles at the family reunions she attended every year.  In a thoughtful, humorous voice born of Appalachian storytelling, Childers brings to life in these essays events that affected the entire region: large families that squeezed into tiny apartments during the Great Depression, a girl who stepped into a rowboat from a second-story window during Huntington's 1937 flood, brothers who