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Creeker : a woman's journey /

"Linda Sue Preston was born on a feather bed in the upper room of her Grandma Emmy's log house in the hills of eastern Kentucky. More than fifty years later, Linda Scott DeRosier has come to believe that you can take a woman out of Appalachia but you can't take Appalachia out of the w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: DeRosier, Linda Scott, 1941-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, KY : University Press of Kentucky, 1999.
Colección:Women in Southern culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"Linda Sue Preston was born on a feather bed in the upper room of her Grandma Emmy's log house in the hills of eastern Kentucky. More than fifty years later, Linda Scott DeRosier has come to believe that you can take a woman out of Appalachia but you can't take Appalachia out of the woman."--Jacket
"DeRosier's humorous and poignant memoir is the story of an educated and cultured woman who came of age in Appalachia. Now a college professor, decades and notions removed from the creeks and hollows, DeRosier knows that her roots run deep in her memory and language and in her approach to the world."--Jacket
"DeRosier describes an Appalachia of complexity and beauty rarely seen by outsiders. Hers was a close-knit world; she says she was probably eleven or twelve years old before she ever spoke to a stranger. She lovingly remembers the unscheduled, day-long visits to friends and family, when visitors cheerfully joined in the day's chores of stringing beans or bedding out sweet potatoes."--Jacket
"Creeker is a story of relationships, the challenges and consequences of choice, and the impact of the past on the present. It also recalls one woman's struggle to make and keep a sense of self while remaining loyal to the people and traditions that sustained her along life's way."--Jacket
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xvii, 228 pages) : illustrations
ISBN:9780813127019
0813127017
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9781283327114
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