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Spit baths : stories / Greg Downs.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Downs, Greg, 1971-
- Series:
- Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.
- Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Race relations--Fiction.
- Race relations.
- Kentucky--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Kentucky.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (192 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- With a reporter's eye for the inside story and a historian's grasp of the ironies in our collective past, Downs affectionately observes some of the last survivors of what Greil Marcus has called the old, weird America.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Adam's Curse
- Black Pork
- The Hired Man
- Snack Cakes
- Spit Baths
- Field Trip
- A Comparative History of Nashville Love Affairs
- Indoor Plumbing
- Freedom Rides
- Ain't I a King, Too?
- Domestic Architecture
- Hope Chests
- Between States.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-25325-9
- 9786613253255
- 0-8203-4293-9
- OCLC:
- 759160188
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