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Author Covington, Vicki.

Title Women in a man's world, crying : essays / Vicki Covington.

Publication Info. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2002]
©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 160 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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Contents 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.
Summary 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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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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Subject Covington, Vicki.
Covington, Vicki.
Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Novelists, American.
Chronological Term 20th century
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships.
Families.
Southern States -- Social life and customs.
Southern States.
Manners and customs.
Man-woman relationships -- Southern States.
Man-woman relationships.
Women -- Southern States -- Biography.
Women.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Other Form: Print version: Covington, Vicki. Women in a man's world, crying. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2002 0817311599 9780817311599 (DLC) 2002004773 (OCoLC)49511898
ISBN 9780817382698 (electronic book)
0817382690 (electronic book)
0817311599 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780817311599