Riding on Comets : A Memoir /

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"Riding on Comets is the true story of an only child growing up in a working-class family during the 1950s and '60s. As the family storyteller, Cat Pleska whispers and shouts about her life growing up around savvy, strong women and hard-working, hard-drinking men. Unlike many family storie...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Pleska, Cat, 1953-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Morgantown : Vandalia Press, 2015.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Pleska, Cat, > 1953-
Pleska, Cat, > 1953- > Childhood and youth.
Pleska, Cat, > 1953- > Family.
Working class families.
Only child.
Manners and customs.
Families.
Appalachians (People)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Women.
Familles ouvrieres > Virginie-Occidentale > Biographies.
Appalachians (People) > West Virginia > Biography.
Only child > Biography.
Working class families > West Virginia > Biography.
West Virginia > Saint Albans.
West Virginia.
Virginie-Occidentale > Moeurs et coutumes > 20e siecle.
West Virginia > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Saint Albans (W. Va.) > Biography.
Saint Albans (W. Va.) > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • IMAGES ...
  • No Salt
  • Trick or Treat
  • A Tone
  • Give Me My Hat
  • Big Earl's
  • A Brush with the Law
  • In Mommaw's Kitchen
  • AWAKENING ...
  • What We Called Home
  • From a Time Before
  • Night Light
  • Cicada Buzz
  • AWARENESS ...
  • I Spy
  • Shelter
  • Back Home
  • Devil Faces
  • Something Gathers 'Round Me
  • House of Leaves
  • Plunder
  • REACTION ...
  • Alarm Clock
  • My Civic Duty
  • The Nervous Hospital
  • My Kingdom for a Horse
  • Night on Cheat Mountain I
  • Night on Cheat Mountain II
  • CarniVAL
  • War
  • The Sailor man
  • LOSS ...
  • In the Cellar
  • Reckoning
  • Exception to the Rule
  • Charmed
  • I've Drawed up a Mite
  • 900 Degrees Celsius
  • Twin Haloes
  • The Phone Rings
  • Attention K-Mart Shoppers! Do the Dead Wear Underwear?
  • We Shall Gather
  • Riding on Comets
  • Night on Cheat Mountain III
  • Fall
  • STRENGTH ...
  • Liminal
  • Dragon's Tale
  • Epilogue
  • Author Bio
  • Book Discussion.

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