| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 160 pages) |
| Contents |
Women in a man's world, crying -- The girls' locker room -- Her breast -- Women in prison -- Nails -- Girls playing hardball -- The father-daughter game -- A southern Thanksgiving -- Donor -- A simple life -- Recipes and the friends who went with them -- Barbie -- School lunch -- Michael Jordan's midlife crisis -- Buying Annie -- Crossing the viaduct -- My mother's brain -- Race car drivers and writers -- December, a grandmother's dying -- Nixon -- Jackie -- The mouse -- The south catches on to AIDS -- The AIDS care team -- The family reunion -- Grits -- The southern art of feeding -- Museum -- The disappearing south -- The star of wonder -- Jan, my cousin -- The apple tree -- Mother's day -- Other people's hell -- Normandy -- Letters from the war -- On marriage -- A feminist Easter -- Eros -- The moon, twenty five years later -- Walking on water -- Writers don't wear petticoats -- Imagination's birth -- The horse -- The house within. |
| Summary |
This thoughtful, engaging collection showcases the best nonfiction prose produced by one of the nation's most observant and incisive writers. This collection of warm, heartfelt essays from award-winning novelist Vicki Covington chronicles the multitude of "in between" moments in the writer's life. These are her stolen moments in between the writing of four novels-Gathering Home, Bird of Paradise, Night Ride Home, and The Last Hotel for Women; in between coauthoring the edgy memoir Cleaving: The Story of a Marriage with her husband Dennis Covington; in between raising two daughters; i. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Covington, Vicki.
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Covington, Vicki. (OCoLC)fst00224893
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Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships.
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Southern States -- Social life and customs.
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Man-woman relationships -- Southern States.
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Women -- Southern States -- Biography.
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Covington, Vicki -- Novelists, American -- Biography. Women -- Southern States -- Biography. Man-woman relationships -- Southern States. Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Family rel.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Man-woman relationships. (OCoLC)fst01007080
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Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
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Novelists, American. (OCoLC)fst01039688
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Novelists, American -- Family relationships.
(OCoLC)fst01039693
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Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
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Southern States. (OCoLC)fst01244550
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| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999
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| Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Covington, Vicki. Women in a man's world, crying. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2002 0817311599 9780817311599 (DLC) 2002004773 (OCoLC)49511898 |
| ISBN |
9780817382698 (electronic bk.) |
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0817382690 (electronic bk.) |
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