The Bookmaker's Daughter: A Memory UnboundTicknor & Fields, 1991 - Počet stran: 290 Richly detailed with family anecdotes, feminist insight, history, sociology, and Southern mythology, this memoir chronicles Abbott's volatile relationship with her father, a bookie at an illegal gambling house. "A moving attempt to understand . . . how a bitter failure of a man was also the father of a real maker of books".--Valerie Sayers, New York Times Book Review. |
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How He Brought Me into the World | 3 |
How He Earned Our Living | 13 |
Mappa Mundi | 26 |
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