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Addie: A Memoir

Mary Lee Settle

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Description:Settle's warm, rich, colorful multigenerational family saga encompasses her great-grandparents' fortune in land, slaves, livestock, coal mines, salt works; her roots in West Virginia's Kanawha River Valley, pioneers' gateway to Kentucky bluegrass country; racial tensions, wars with Indians, the Civil War's legacy?themes and events that have shaped her fiction, notably the epic Beulah Quintet. Two sharply contrasting women dominate: the author's genteel mother, a fiercely determined suffragist, frustrated poet and Southern Democrat in a Republican household, who believed that whites ought to be "responsible for 'colored' people," and Settle's emotional, feisty maternal grandmother, Addie, a Church of God Holy Roller who scorned her relatives' "cold-blooded, straight-backed Presbyterianism." It was Addie who told Settle about her encounters with ghosts, who took her to a tent revival meeting to heal her eye trouble, who introduced her to a world of myth and poetry that would fuel the Beulah saga. Settle, whose peripatetic girlhood bounced from West Virginia to Kentucky, Florida and Charleston, sometimes romanticizes her family and the South. Yet her incisive account of coming to terms with her family's mixed legacy is shot through with wit, grace and rueful irony, and is punctuated by personal tragedies: an uncle's suicide, another uncle's brutal murder, her grandfather's death under the wheels of a train. Her mellifluous prose and her novelist's gift for setting scenes and delineating characters keeps this memoir flowing like a clear mountain spring.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Addie: A Memoir. To get started finding Addie: A Memoir, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 304

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Berkley Books

Release: 2000

ISBN: 0425174425

Description: Settle's warm, rich, colorful multigenerational family saga encompasses her great-grandparents' fortune in land, slaves, livestock, coal mines, salt works; her roots in West Virginia's Kanawha River Valley, pioneers' gateway to Kentucky bluegrass country; racial tensions, wars with Indians, the Civil War's legacy?themes and events that have shaped her fiction, notably the epic Beulah Quintet. Two sharply contrasting women dominate: the author's genteel mother, a fiercely determined suffragist, frustrated poet and Southern Democrat in a Republican household, who believed that whites ought to be "responsible for 'colored' people," and Settle's emotional, feisty maternal grandmother, Addie, a Church of God Holy Roller who scorned her relatives' "cold-blooded, straight-backed Presbyterianism." It was Addie who told Settle about her encounters with ghosts, who took her to a tent revival meeting to heal her eye trouble, who introduced her to a world of myth and poetry that would fuel the Beulah saga. Settle, whose peripatetic girlhood bounced from West Virginia to Kentucky, Florida and Charleston, sometimes romanticizes her family and the South. Yet her incisive account of coming to terms with her family's mixed legacy is shot through with wit, grace and rueful irony, and is punctuated by personal tragedies: an uncle's suicide, another uncle's brutal murder, her grandfather's death under the wheels of a train. Her mellifluous prose and her novelist's gift for setting scenes and delineating characters keeps this memoir flowing like a clear mountain spring.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Addie: A Memoir. To get started finding Addie: A Memoir, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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