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Family Bible by Melissa J. Delbridge (2010, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherUniversity of Iowa Press

ISBN-101587298740

ISBN-139781587298745

eBay Product ID (ePID)79681806

Product Key Features

Book TitleFamily Bibles

Number of Pages168 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2010

TopicPersonal Memoirs, General

GenreBiography & Autobiography

AuthorMelissa J. Delbridge

Book SeriesSightline Bks.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width5.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"Delbridge knows sorrow like she knows the rhythm of her own heart. . . . Fans of Carson McCullers won't want to miss this one--witty, tragic, and relentlessly wise."-- Booklist , starred review, "Delbridge knows sorrow like she knows the rhythm of her own heart. . . . Fans of Carson McCullers won't want to miss this one-witty, tragic, and relentlessly wise."-Booklist, starred review, "Delbridge knows sorrow like she knows the rhythm of her own heart. . . . Fans of Carson McCullers won't want to miss this one-witty, tragic, and relentlessly wise."- Booklist , starred review, "Melissa Delbridge's memories of her early life are dead-accurate, hilarious, and tragic and will surely prove enduring as a guide to the Deepest South--a place and a culture that continue to prove alarmingly vital. I mean to keep the book handy, for pleasure and real guidance."--Reynolds Price, "Melissa Delbridge's memories of her early life are dead-accurate, hilarious, and tragic and will surely prove enduring as a guide to the Deepest South-a place and a culture that continue to prove alarmingly vital. I mean to keep the book handy, for pleasure and real guidance."-Reynolds Price

Dewey Decimal976.1/84063092 B

SynopsisA memoir that shows us what really happened in the 'stew of religion and sex' that was 1960s Tuscaloosa., "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 Delbridge endows each with her startling and original interpretation. In this disarmingly unguarded and unapologetic memoir, she shows us what really happened in the "stew of religion and sex" that was 1960s Tuscaloosa.

LC Classification NumberCT275.D34157A3 2008