The Bookmaker's Daughter: A Memory Unbound - Softcover

Abbott, Shirley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1557288216 ISBN 13: 9781557288219

Publisher: University of Arkansas Press, 2006

Synopsis

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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Review:

"A marvelously readable book." -- C. Vann Woodward, author of The Burden of Southern History "[Abbott's] book sings with fierce love for the flawed patriarch with whom she finally comes to terms." -- Publishers Weekly "A rare thing in American literature. . . . an honest daughter's-eye view of a nurturing father." -- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times "It is a sure bet that sections will be anthologized as models of good writing. In addition...this book will likely grace reading lists of women's studies classes nationwide. The book deserves every bit of this attention." -- Library Journal

"[Abbott's] book sings with fierce love for the flawed patriarch with whom she finally comes to terms."

--Publishers Weekly

"A rare thing in American literature. . . . an honest daughter's-eye view of a nurturing father."

--Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1557288216
• ISBN 13: 9781557288219
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 322