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Nobody rich or famous : a family memoir / Richard Shelton.
LIBRA PS3569.H39367 Z46 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shelton, Richard, 1933-2022, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shelton, Richard, 1933-2022--Family.
- Shelton, Richard.
- Shelton, Richard, 1933-2022--Anecdotes.
- Shelton, Richard, 1933-2022--Homes and haunts--Idaho--Boise River Valley.
- Shelton, Richard, 1933-2022.
- Families.
- Boise River Valley (Idaho)--Description and travel.
- Boise River Valley (Idaho).
- Homes.
- Travel.
- Idaho--Boise River Valley.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Anecdotes.
- Physical Description:
- 284 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Tucson : The University of Arizona Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- Nobody Rich or Famous is a literary memoir about family and place. Shelton travels to his childhood home in rural Idaho to connect with his past and discover his family history. The manuscript touches upon family dynamics, death and mortality, alcoholism, abusive relationships, and life in the rural and urban West. The book simultaneously exposes the conflicts within Shelton's family while illustrating life in Great Basin during the first half of the 20th century.
- Contents:
- Part I Hazel and Red: Six Boise Scenes
- July 1920 7
- June 1933 12
- October 1936 15
- July 1938 17
- December 1940 19
- October 1951 21
- Part II Midwestern Interlude
- Josie's Journal 29
- Searching for Josie 42
- Searching for Martha 47
- Searching for Phebe 57
- Part III Going Down the Valley
- Flume Street 75
- Horse Thieves 90
- The Ranch 98
- The Celestials 106
- Too Long at the Fair 109
- Eagle to Star 122
- The Ranch II 130
- The Romance 141
- Part IV Charlotte's Journals
- The Network 155
- Into the Woods 162
- Bayview 170
- Back to Boise 185
- O! California 189
- San Bernardino 197
- Back to Boise II 207
- Part V Hazel's Journals
- Moses Lake and Other Miseries 217
- Broad Street 226
- Central School 236
- Films 242
- Hands 248
- Part VI Beautiful
- Father and Sons 257
- Hands II 265
- Nobody Rich or Famous 270
- Beautiful 278.
- ISBN:
- 9780816533992
- 0816533997
- 9780816534005
- 0816534004
- OCLC:
- 940795609
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