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When we were ghouls : a memoir of ghost stories / Amy E. Wallen.
Van Pelt Library PS3623.A3599 W45 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wallen, Amy, author.
- Series:
- American lives
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wallen, Amy--Childhood and youth.
- Wallen, Amy.
- Wallen, Amy--Homes and haunts.
- Authors, American--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- Right and wrong.
- Grave robbing.
- Memory.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 279 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- "Plumbing the slipperiness of memory and confronting what it means to be a "good" human, Amy Wallen links the fear of loss and mortality to childhood ideas of permanence as she grapples with the fact that her parents were grave robbers"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Redneck arrival
- My baptism
- Under the dogonyaro tree
- Without the other
- What won't rub off
- From gypsy to socialite
- Bees and bad men
- Christmas execution
- Pine-solo
- New knees
- The vestibule
- Deer in the headlights
- Arriving at midnight
- Seeds don't grow in a hotel
- Buche de noel
- The Lima welcome wagon
- Godzilla, the witch, and the wardrobe
- Black magic and a guitar solo
- Phantom limb
- Christmas bird
- Our best imitation of gringos
- The butcher gets bigger
- Taking flight
- Tabloids and cigarettes
- Politicians in the living room
- The chicken-wire menagerie
- What I do see
- Helter skelter
- Images on a paper soul
- What remains.
- Notes:
- "The essay 'When We Were Ghouls' was originally published in the Gettysburg Review 29, no. 1 (Spring 2016)."
- ISBN:
- 9780803296954
- 0803296959
- OCLC:
- 1009214262
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