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Family Bible / Melissa J. Delbridge.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Delbridge, Melissa J., 1952-
- Series:
- Sightline books.
- Sightline books
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Teenage girls, White--Sexual behavior--Southern States.
- Teenage girls, White.
- School integration--Southern States.
- School integration.
- Incest--United States.
- Incest.
- Children of alcoholics--Alabama.
- Children of alcoholics.
- Lesbians--Alabama.
- Lesbians.
- Southern States--Social conditions.
- Southern States.
- Alabama--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Alabama.
- Tuscaloosa (Ala.)--Biography.
- Tuscaloosa (Ala.).
- Delbridge, Melissa J., 1952-.
- Delbridge, Melissa J.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (169 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- ""Swimming and sex seemed a lot alike to me when I was growing up. You took off most of your clothes to do them and you only did them with people who were the same color as you. As your daddy got richer, you got to do them in fancier places."" Starting with her father, who never met a whitetail buck he couldn't shoot, a whiskey bottle he couldn't empty, or a woman he couldn't charm, and her mother, who ""invented road rage before 1960,"" Melissa Delbridge introduces us to the people in her own family bible. Readers will find elements of Southern Gothic and familiar vernacular characters, but D
- Contents:
- Hurricane Creek
- Mimosa Park
- Shot rule
- Gun and bait
- Faith of our fathers
- The company we keep
- Under my saddle
- Billy boy
- Baptism
- Body of knowledge
- Girls turned in.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-58729-715-9
- OCLC:
- 646887591
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