When we were ghouls : a memoir of ghost stories /

"Plumbing the slipperiness of memory and confronting what it means to be a "good" human, Amy Wallen links the fear of loss and mortality to childhood ideas of permanence as she grapples with the fact that her parents were grave robbers"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wallen, Amy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2018]
Colección:American lives.
Temas:
Wallen, Amy > Childhood and youth.
Wallen, Amy > Homes and haunts.
Authors, American > Biography.
Right and wrong.
Grave robbing.
Memory.
Écrivains américains > Biographies.
Rectitude.
Tombes > Pillage.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Authors, American
Grave robbing
Homes
Memory
Right and wrong
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Redneck arrival
  • My baptism
  • Under the dogonyaro tree
  • Without the other
  • What won't rub off
  • From gypsy to socialite
  • Bees and bad men
  • Christmas execution
  • Pine-solo
  • New knees
  • The vestibule
  • Deer in the headlights
  • Arriving at midnight
  • Seeds don't grow in a hotel
  • Buche de noel
  • The Lima welcome wagon
  • Godzilla, the witch, and the wardrobe
  • Black magic and a guitar solo
  • Phantom limb
  • Christmas bird
  • Our best imitation of gringos
  • The butcher gets bigger
  • Taking flight
  • Tabloids and cigarettes
  • Politicians in the living room
  • The chicken-wire menagerie
  • What I do see
  • Helter skelter
  • Images on a paper soul
  • What remains.

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