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1 online resource (xx, 143 pages) |
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Sightline books |
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Sightline books.
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Hurricane Creek -- Mimosa Park -- Shot rule -- Gun and bait -- Faith of our fathers -- The company we keep -- Under my saddle -- Billy boy -- Baptism -- Body of knowledge -- Girls turned in |
| Summary |
""Swimming and sex seemed a lot alike to me when I was growing up. You took off most of your clothes to do them and you only did them with people who were the same color as you. As your daddy got richer, you got to do them in fancier places."" Starting with her father, who never met a whitetail buck he couldn't shoot, a whiskey bottle he couldn't empty, or a woman he couldn't charm, and her mother, who ""invented road rage before 1960,"" Melissa Delbridge introduces us to the people in her own family bible. Readers will find elements of Southern Gothic and familiar vernacular characters, but D |
| Notes |
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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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Delbridge, Melissa J., 1952-
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| SUBJECT |
Delbridge, Melissa J., 1952- fast |
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Teenage girls, White -- Sexual behavior -- Southern States
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School integration -- Southern States
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Incest -- United States
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Children of alcoholics -- Alabama
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Lesbians -- Alabama
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
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Children of alcoholics
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Incest
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Lesbians
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Manners and customs
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School integration
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Social conditions
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Southern States -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125661
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Alabama -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
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Tuscaloosa (Ala.) -- Biography
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Alabama
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Alabama -- Tuscaloosa
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Southern States
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781587297151 |
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1587297159 |
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