Author: Shirley Abbott

Publisher: University of Arkansas Press

Published: 2006-03-30

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 1557288216

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.