The last resort : taking the Mississippi cure /
Raised under the racial segregation that kept her family's southern country hotel afloat, Norma Watkins grows up listening at doors, trying to penetrate the secrets and silences of the black help and of her parents' marriage. Groomed to be an ornament to white patriarchy, she sees herself...
| Основен автор: | Watkins, Norma. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2011.
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| Серия: |
Willie Morris books in memoir and biography.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=369049 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Last resort. |
| Резюме: |
Raised under the racial segregation that kept her family's southern country hotel afloat, Norma Watkins grows up listening at doors, trying to penetrate the secrets and silences of the black help and of her parents' marriage. Groomed to be an ornament to white patriarchy, she sees herself failing at the ideal of becoming a southern lady. When a civil rights lawyer offers love and escape, does a good southern lady dare leave her home state and closed society behind? The Last Resort conveys at once the idyllic charm and the impossible compromises of a lost way of life. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xii, 291 pages, [16] pages of plates) : illustrations. |
| ISBN: |
9781604739787 1604739789 |