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" The trouble with being born / "
Jeffrey DeShell.
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BL
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993099
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b747469
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| Main Entry
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DeShell, Jeffrey.
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| Title & Author
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The trouble with being born /\ Jeffrey DeShell.
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| Edition Statement
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1st ed.
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| Publication Statement
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Tuscaloosa, Ala. :: FC2,, ©2008.
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1 online resource (209 pages)
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| ISBN
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1573668109
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: 9781573668101
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1573661414
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9781573661416
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| Contents
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Chapter 1 (Mother); Chapter 2 (Father); Chapter 3 (Mother); Chapter 4 (Father); Chapter 5 (Mother); Chapter 6 (Father); Chapter 7 (Mother); Chapter 8 (Father); Chapter 9 (Mother); Chapter 10 (Father); Chapter 11 (Mother); Chapter 12 (Father); Chapter 13 (Mother); Chapter 14 (Father); Chapter 15 (Mother); Chapter 16 (Father); Chapter 17 (Mother); Chapter 18 (Father); Chapter 19 (Mother); Chapter 20 (Father); Chapter 21 (Mother); Chapter 22 (Father); Chapter 23 (Mother); Chapter 24 (Father); Chapter 25 (Mother); Chapter 26 (Father); Chapter 27 (Mother); Chapter 28 (Father); Chapter 29 (Mother).
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| Abstract
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Novel, memoir, and anti-memoir, The Trouble with Being Born depicts the lives of Frances and Joe, husband and wife. Told in their own alternating voices, they recall their lives, separately and together, and the divergent trajectories of their origins and aspirations. Frances's story moves in reverse: beginning with her dementia in old age, her narrative moves backwards into lucidity, through a cruel and loveless marriage, the birth of her son Jeffrey, and into a childhood that she recalls fondly as a time of innocence and belonging. Joe's memories begin in childhood, a bewildered boy struggling.
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Marriage, Fiction.
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FICTION-- General.
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Marriage.
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.54
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PS3554.E8358T76 2008eb
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