03881nam 2200637 a 450 991045660700332120200520144314.01-282-46819-797866124681931-55591-884-0(CKB)2550000000004465(EBL)478775(OCoLC)609854332(SSID)ssj0000357421(PQKBManifestationID)11248091(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000357421(PQKBWorkID)10352364(PQKB)10500201(MiAaPQ)EBC478775(Au-PeEL)EBL478775(CaPaEBR)ebr10288636(CaONFJC)MIL246819(EXLCZ)99255000000000446520080612d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBuffalo gal[electronic resource] a memoir /Laura PedersenGolden, Colo. Fulcrum Pub.20081 online resource (320 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-55591-692-9 CONTENTS; Preface; One: God's Frozen People; Two: The First Event Leading Up to My Death; Three: American Buffalo...The King of Cooland Demon Rum; Four: He'd Always Have Paris...Trading Up...Danish for Beginners:; Five: Getting Up Your Irish...Family Diversity...Three's a Mob; Six: When Johnny Comes Typing Home...Wedding-Bell Blues; Seven: Onward Catholic Soldiers...Everything'sGood in the Hood...The Sinusitis Capital; Eight: Buffalo Runs Riot; Nine: A Full House; Ten: Egg Salad Days...Beads of Paradise; Eleven: The Tundra YearsTwelve: Mary Tyler Moore for President...HitParade...The Americans with No Abilities ActThirteen: Born in the UUA...Keeping Kosher; Fourteen: Water Hazard...Is That Your Child?; Fifteen: Will Joke for Food...It's a Mad,Mad House...How I Learned to Cook; Sixteen: The Birth of an Entrepreneur...From Socks to Stocks...The Wizard of Odds; Seventeen: Everyone Was Groovy...Stardate 1965; Eighteen: Sleet Happens: The Blizzard of '77; Nineteen: Taking a Turn for the Nurse; Twenty: Bus Stop; Twenty-One: Enter, Stage Left...O.B. (Order Big)... A Decent Docent Doesn't Doze; Twenty-Two: Down on the Farm...Doing Time...Beat ItTwenty-Three: Real World 101Twenty-Four: Earl and Me...The SewingCircle Turns Square; Twenty-Five: Will Work for AC...Mom Turns Pro...The Mosquito Coast; Twenty-Six: Home at Sweet Home...Class Clown...Dressing Down; Twenty-Seven: Can't We All Get a Lawn?...Pedersen v. Pedersen...Telling It to the Judge...The Play within the Play; Twenty-Eight: Disappearing Act...The Walkway Less Traveled; Twenty-Nine: Are Red and Green Making You Blue?; Thirty: In All Probability; Thirty-One: Home Alone; Thirty-Two: It Could Be Worse; Thirty-Three: The (Sweet) Home Stretch...Faking ItThirty-Four: When the Chips Are Down,the Buffalo's EmptyEpilogue: The People's Republic of Buffalo; About the AuthorThis vibrant memoir about growing up in upstate New York during the 1970s shares the humorous ups and downs of the Pedersen family. Combining laugh-out-loud humor with a genuine slice of social history, New York Times writer Laura Pedersen paints a vivid portrait of an era.Novelists, American20th centuryBiographyNovelists, American21st centuryBiographyFloor traders (Finance)United StatesBiographyElectronic books.Novelists, AmericanNovelists, AmericanFloor traders (Finance)813/.54BPedersen Laura954113MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456607003321Buffalo gal2157684UNINA