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" Women in a man's world, crying : "
Vicki Covington.
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BL
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1032117
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b786487
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| Main Entry
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Covington, Vicki.
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Women in a man's world, crying : : essays /\ Vicki Covington.
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Tuscaloosa :: University of Alabama Press,, ©2002.
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1 online resource (xii, 160 pages)
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0817382690
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0817311599
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9780817311599
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| Contents
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Women in a man's world, crying -- The girls' locker room -- Her breast -- Women in prison -- Nails -- Girls playing hardball -- The father-daughter game -- A southern Thanksgiving -- Donor -- A simple life -- Recipes and the friends who went with them -- Barbie -- School lunch -- Michael Jordan's midlife crisis -- Buying Annie -- Crossing the viaduct -- My mother's brain -- Race car drivers and writers -- December, a grandmother's dying -- Nixon -- Jackie -- The mouse -- The south catches on to AIDS -- The AIDS care team -- The family reunion -- Grits -- The southern art of feeding -- Museum -- The disappearing south -- The star of wonder -- Jan, my cousin -- The apple tree -- Mother's day -- Other people's hell -- Normandy -- Letters from the war -- On marriage -- A feminist Easter -- Eros -- The moon, twenty five years later -- Walking on water -- Writers don't wear petticoats -- Imagination's birth -- The horse -- The house within.
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This thoughtful, engaging collection showcases the best nonfiction prose produced by one of the nation's most observant and incisive writers. This collection of warm, heartfelt essays from award-winning novelist Vicki Covington chronicles the multitude of "in between" moments in the writer's life. These are her stolen moments in between the writing of four novels-Gathering Home, Bird of Paradise, Night Ride Home, and The Last Hotel for Women; in between coauthoring the edgy memoir Cleaving: The Story of a Marriage with her husband Dennis Covington; in between raising two daughters; i.
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Covington, Vicki.
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Covington, Vicki.
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Man-woman relationships-- Southern States.
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Novelists, American-- 20th century, Biography.
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Novelists, American-- 20th century-- Family relationships.
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Women-- Southern States, Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
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Manners and customs.
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Man-woman relationships.
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Novelists, American-- Family relationships.
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Novelists, American.
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Women.
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Southern States, Social life and customs.
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Southern States.
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.54B
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PS3553.O883Z475 2002eb
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