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Riding on comets : a memoir / Cat Pleska.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pleska, Cat, 1953- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Appalachians (People)--West Virginia--Biography.
- Appalachians (People).
- Only child--Biography.
- Only child.
- Working class families--West Virginia--Biography.
- Working class families.
- West Virginia--Social life and customs--20th century.
- West Virginia.
- Saint Albans (W. Va.)--Biography.
- Saint Albans (W. Va.).
- Saint Albans (W. Va.)--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Pleska, Cat, 1953---Childhood and youth.
- Pleska, Cat.
- Pleska, Cat, 1953---Family.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (258 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Morgantown : Vandalia Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "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 stories set within Appalachia, this story provides an uncommon glimpse into this region: not coal, but an aluminum plant; not hollers, but small-town America; not hillbillies, but a hard-working family with traditional values. From the dinner table, to the back porch, to the sprawling countryside, Cat Pleska reveals the sometimes tender, sometimes frightening education of a child who listens at the knees of these giants. She mimics and learns every nuance, every rhythm--how they laugh, smoke, cuss, fight, love, and tell stories--as she unwittingly prepares to carry their tales forward, their words and actions forever etched in her mind. And finally, she discovers a life story of her own"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781940425528
- 1940425522
- 9781940425535
- 1940425530
- OCLC:
- 908389147
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