The bookmaker's daughter : a memory unbound. [Prologue: A house revisited -- How he brought me into the world -- How he earned our living -- Mappa Mundi -- Above the volcano -- Women's studies -- Lessons -- Polity -- The sentimental education -- Dream lines -- How they stayed married -- Pax Romana -- Decline and fall -- The end of order -- Fish gotta swim -- Love story -- On the road -- Homeward the plowman]
by Abbott, Shirley
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New York : Ticknor & Fields, 1991., 1991. Good. xxi, 290 pp., 22 cm. ; red cloth with gold lettering ; ex-lib, stamps, label, pocket, date due slip ; ISBN: 0899195180 ; LCCN: 91-6619 ; OCLC: 23139909 ; "Abbott came to terms with her father in this 1991 memoir. Alfred Abbott told his family he was a bookmaker in the publishing sense, when in reality he was a bookie in the gambling sense. Despite his illegal livelihood, he was a decent dad who instilled in his daughter a love of books and literature that led to her career as a writer. Along with family musings, this also is a portrait of a child growing up in 1940s/1950s Arkansas"--Reed Business Information ; an oil stain on pg 51/52, else G
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- The bookmaker's daughter : a memory unbound. [Prologue: A house revisited -- How he brought me into the world -- How he earned our living -- Mappa Mundi -- Above the volcano -- Women's studies -- Lessons -- Polity -- The sentimental education -- Dream lines -- How they stayed married -- Pax Romana -- Decline and fall -- The end of order -- Fish gotta swim -- Love story -- On the road -- Homeward the plowman]
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