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- catalog abstract ""A meditation on the comforts of homeplace and family, A Girl's Life celebrates the last era in America, the 1950s and 1960s, when it was still possible to enjoy a cynicism-free girlhood - when "it was still safe for children to take gifts from strangers and not yet unwise for them to leave the doors of their hearts unlocked." As Eudora Welty wrote in her autobiographical memoir One Writer's Beginnings, "A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within." The seventeen personal narratives collected here corroborate Welty's conviction." "Arranged in a loose chronology, the tales document a southern white girl's middle-class initiation into the adult world. The first section, "Sanctuary," recalls Gingher's earliest impressions of family dynamics and shelter, a child's yearnings and resourcefulness. "Truths and Grit," the second section, deals with the tempering of bliss, a young girl's first encounters with corruption and mortality. In the final group of essays, "Metaphors and Ties," Gingher explores the contributions her recollections of childhood make in her ongoing trials as a parent and a writer. That her own childhood still permeates and inspires her present life is perhaps its greatest legacy."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12090364.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""A meditation on the comforts of homeplace and family, A Girl's Life celebrates the last era in America, the 1950s and 1960s, when it was still possible to enjoy a cynicism-free girlhood - when "it was still safe for children to take gifts from strangers and not yet unwise for them to leave the doors of their hearts unlocked." As Eudora Welty wrote in her autobiographical memoir One Writer's Beginnings, "A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within." The seventeen personal narratives collected here corroborate Welty's conviction." "Arranged in a loose chronology, the tales document a southern white girl's middle-class initiation into the adult world. The first section, "Sanctuary," recalls Gingher's earliest impressions of family dynamics and shelter, a child's yearnings and resourcefulness. "Truths and Grit," the second section, deals with the tempering of bliss, a young girl's first encounters with corruption and mortality. In the final group of essays, "Metaphors and Ties," Gingher explores the contributions her recollections of childhood make in her ongoing trials as a parent and a writer. That her own childhood still permeates and inspires her present life is perhaps its greatest legacy."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Sanctuary -- A hard place to get to -- Help -- The yellow rose -- Melissa's shot -- Escape artists -- Truths and grit -- I was impeached -- White girl's burden -- Kinds of trouble -- My first marriage -- Horses and boys -- The rodeo parade -- Becky's accident -- Metaphors and pies -- The heartfelt home -- Why I did not go to Syracuse -- At home in snow -- Medium cool -- Wedding music.".
- catalog extent "x, 224 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0807126853 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baton Rouge, La : Louisiana State University Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "305.242/092 B 21".
- catalog subject "Gingher, Marianne.".
- catalog subject "HQ1229.G55 G56 2001".
- catalog subject "Middle class United States.".
- catalog subject "Young women United States Biography.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Sanctuary -- A hard place to get to -- Help -- The yellow rose -- Melissa's shot -- Escape artists -- Truths and grit -- I was impeached -- White girl's burden -- Kinds of trouble -- My first marriage -- Horses and boys -- The rodeo parade -- Becky's accident -- Metaphors and pies -- The heartfelt home -- Why I did not go to Syracuse -- At home in snow -- Medium cool -- Wedding music.".
- catalog title "A girl's life : horses, boys, weddings, and luck / Marianne Gingher.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".