The Bookmaker's Daughter
Download or Read eBook The Bookmaker's Daughter PDF 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.
| Author | : Shirley Abbott |
| Publisher | : University of Arkansas Press |
| Total Pages | : 323 |
| Release | : 2006-03-30 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781557288219 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1557288216 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Bookmaker's Daughter by : Shirley Abbott
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.
