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Author Pedersen, Laura

Title Buffalo Gal
Published New York : Fulcrum Pub., 2008

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Description 1 online resource (320 pages)
Contents Preface; One: God's Frozen People; Two: The First Event Leading Up to My Death; Three: American Buffalo...The King of Cooland Demon Rum; Four: He'd Always Have Paris...Trading Up...Danish for Beginners:; Five: Getting Up Your Irish...Family Diversity...Three's a Mob; Six: When Johnny Comes Typing Home...Wedding-Bell Blues; Seven: Onward Catholic Soldiers...Everything'sGood in the Hood...The Sinusitis Capital; Eight: Buffalo Runs Riot; Nine: A Full House; Ten: Egg Salad Days...Beads of Paradise; Eleven: The Tundra Years
Twelve: Mary Tyler Moore for President...HitParade...The Americans with No Abilities ActThirteen: Born in the UUA...Keeping Kosher; Fourteen: Water Hazard...Is That Your Child?; Fifteen: Will Joke for Food...It's a Mad,Mad House...How I Learned to Cook; Sixteen: The Birth of an Entrepreneur...From Socks to Stocks...The Wizard of Odds; Seventeen: Everyone Was Groovy...Stardate 1965; Eighteen: Sleet Happens: The Blizzard of '77; Nineteen: Taking a Turn for the Nurse; Twenty: Bus Stop; Twenty-One: Enter, Stage Left...O.B. (Order Big)... A Decent Docent Doesn't Doze; Twenty-Two: Down on the Farm...Doing Time...Beat It
Twenty-Three: Real World 101Twenty-Four: Earl and Me...The SewingCircle Turns Square; Twenty-Five: Will Work for AC...Mom Turns Pro...The Mosquito Coast; Twenty-Six: Home at Sweet Home...Class Clown...Dressing Down; Twenty-Seven: Can't We All Get a Lawn?...Pedersen v. Pedersen...Telling It to the Judge...The Play within the Play; Twenty-Eight: Disappearing Act...The Walkway Less Traveled; Twenty-Nine: Are Red and Green Making You Blue?; Thirty: In All Probability; Thirty-One: Home Alone; Thirty-Two: It Could Be Worse; Thirty-Three: The (Sweet) Home Stretch...Faking It
Thirty-Four: When the Chips Are Down,the Buffalo's EmptyEpilogue: The People's Republic of Buffalo; About the Author
Summary Growing up in the snowblower society of Buffalo, New York, Laura Pedersen s first words were most likely turn the wheel into a skid. Like many families subsisting in the frigid North during the energy crisis, the Pedersens feared rising prices at the gas pump, argued about the thermostat, fought over the dog to stay warm at night, and often slept in their clothes. While her parents were preoccupied with surviving separation and stagflation, daughter Laura became the neighborhood wild child, skipping school, playing poker, betting on the horses, and trading stocks. Learning how to beat the odds
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Subject Pedersen, Laura -- Childhood and youth
Pedersen, Laura -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- Buffalo
SUBJECT Pedersen, Laura fast
Subject Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography
Novelists, American -- 21st century -- Biography
Floor traders (Finance) -- United States -- Biography
Childhood and youth of a person
Floor traders (Finance)
Homes
Novelists, American
New York (State) -- Buffalo
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781555918842
1555918840