LEADER 03848nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910780913303321 005 20230721005624.0 010 $a1-282-46819-7 010 $a9786612468193 010 $a1-55591-884-0 035 $a(CKB)2550000000004465 035 $a(EBL)478775 035 $a(OCoLC)609854332 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000357421 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11248091 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000357421 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10352364 035 $a(PQKB)10500201 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC478775 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL478775 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10288636 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL246819 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000004465 100 $a20080612d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBuffalo gal$b[electronic resource] $ea memoir /$fLaura Pedersen 210 $aGolden, Colo. $cFulcrum Pub.$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (320 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-55591-692-9 327 $aCONTENTS; 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 Years 327 $aTwelve: 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 It 327 $aTwenty-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 It 327 $aThirty-Four: When the Chips Are Down,the Buffalo's EmptyEpilogue: The People's Republic of Buffalo; About the Author 330 $aThis 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. 606 $aNovelists, American$y20th century$vBiography 606 $aNovelists, American$y21st century$vBiography 606 $aFloor traders (Finance)$zUnited States$vBiography 615 0$aNovelists, American 615 0$aNovelists, American 615 0$aFloor traders (Finance) 676 $a813/.54 676 $aB 700 $aPedersen$b Laura$01518967 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780913303321 996 $aBuffalo gal$93756815 997 $aUNINA