A messy job I never did see a girl do : short stories / Mary Jane Ryals.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ryals, Mary Jane.

Language:

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

120 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Livingston, AL : Livingston Press at The University of West Alabama, [1999]

Summary:

There is hope in all these stories, despite the fact that the adolescent girls in them often lead less than idyllic, even frightening lives in frightening times. A good part of that hope derives from Ms. Ryal's lyricism: through it we understand that the girls all burn with an inner strength that will carry them through the abuse, the death, the racism, and the alcoholism they must endure in their lives as "crackers" growing up in Florida's panhandle.

Contents:

At the Other end of Nowhere 1

Pig On a Stick 8

Saturday Street 18

A Messy Job I Never Did See A Girl Do 25

Sheer Curtains Going Down 35

Swallows Dance 47

Bring Buffalo Punch 57

One Forty Four 66

Where the Shadows Tangle and Snare and Sing 81

Right Past the Party 91

Two Kinda Fools 103

Lobsterboy and the Televangelist 111.

ISBN:

0942979591 :

OCLC:

41537759