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

• Autore: Childers Sarah Beth <1982->
• Pubblicazione: Athens, Ohio : , : Ohio University Press, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (217 p.)
• Disciplina: 814/.6
• Soggetto topico: Appalachians (People) - Social life and customs; Authors, American - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: Appalachian Region Religious life and customs; Appalachian Region Social conditions
• Classificazione: LCO000000
• 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
• Altri titoli varianti: Stories from an Appalachian family
• Titolo autorizzato: Shake terribly the earth
• ISBN: 0-8214-4468-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910790899603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Series in Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Appalachia