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Record Nr.

UNINA9910971856203321

Autore

Barber Phyllis <1943->

Titolo

Raw edges : a memoir / / Phyllis Barber

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Reno, : University of Nevada Press, c2009

ISBN

0-87417-808-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 268 p. ) : ill. ;

Disciplina

306.89/3092

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Soggetti

Divorced women - United States

History & Archaeology

Biography - General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Prologue -- Blues in the Attic -- The Two-Wheeled Getaway Car -- For Time and All Eternity -- Bidden or Not -- Homeward to Zion -- The Unpredictable Body -- In the Attic with St. Francis -- The Precarious Edge of Life -- The Meaning of Goodness -- The Iron Maiden Cracks -- The Doves Descending -- In the Beginning -- Two Thousand Kisses Deep -- Filling the Void -- The Human Head Is a Cube -- Wedges -- The Nesting Doll -- Parting the Waters -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments.

Sommario/riassunto

When Phyllis Barber's thirty-three-year marriage ended, she had to redefine herself as a woman, a mother, and an artist.Raw Edges is her moving account of the "lean years" that followed her divorce.