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Shake terribly the earth : stories from an Appalachian family /
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 v...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens, Ohio :
Ohio University Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Ohio University Press series in race, ethnicity, and gender in Appalachia.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (215 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780821444689 0821444689 0821420623 9780821420621 |