The Bookmaker's Daughter

The Bookmaker's Daughter
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Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Total Pages : 323
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ISBN-10 : 9781557288219
ISBN-13 : 1557288216
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Book Synopsis The Bookmaker's Daughter by : Shirley Abbott

Download or read book The Bookmaker's Daughter written by Shirley Abbott and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2006-03-30 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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