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Trespasses : a memoir / Lacy M. Johnson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnson, Lacy M., 1978-
- Series:
- Sightline Books
- Sightline book. The Iowa series in literary nonfiction
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biography.
- Macon (Mo.)--Biography.
- Macon (Mo.).
- Johnson, Lacy M., 1978-.
- Johnson, Lacy M.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (157 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A series of vividly rendered personal narratives, Trespasses: A Memoir recounts the coming of age of three generations in the rural Great Plains. In examining how class, race, and gender play out in the lives of two farm families who simultaneously love and hate the place they can't escape, Lacy Johnson presents rural whiteness as an ethnicity worthy of study. As she dismantles the complex history of a forgotten place while fighting to keep its people whole, Johnson reflects on a place that outsiders can cross into or pass through, but may never fully know. From formal and
- Contents:
- Contents; Prologue; rural route one; 2006; 1944; still life with coffee; 1945; 2006; 1947; 1990; 1950; inside joke; 1986; 2006; still life with bacon; rural route one; 2006; 1952; 1986; on the other hand; 1955; 1955; same joke; 2006; 1960; 1961; rural route one; a slur; random facts; 1987; 1963; 2006; different joke; 1964; 1988; random facts; 2006; 2006; 1988; rural route one; cast out; 1965; 1964; 1992; moon blindness; 1967; 1967; 1989; 2006; 1968; still life with paperback; 1968; 1969; witness; trespasses; jackson street; 1992; 1973; 1995; 2006; liturgy; 1978; prodigal daughter
- random facts1993; 2006; ars poetica; 1994; whitegate drive; 1996; white / trash; 2006; punchline; 1997; what I had on my sixty-third day in New York City; 2006; still life with picture window; 2001; 2004; 2005; 2006; university heights; notes
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-60938-095-9
- OCLC:
- 793166889
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