Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South - Softcover

Abbott, Shirley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0899198600 ISBN 13: 9780899198606

Publisher: Ticknor & Fields, 1991

Synopsis

Womenfolks is one of those books that, although written about specific people in a specific place, captures the hearts of all who read it. A rich blend of personal memoir and meditation on family myth and tradition, it is both an illuminating examination of mothers and daughters and a vivid tribute to the gritty, independent women who were the South's true heroines.

About this title

About the Author:

Shirley Abbott is the author of Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South and The Bookmaker's Daughter: A Memory Unbound, which was a New York Times Notable Book. Born and raised in Hot Springs, Arkansas, she now lives in New York and Massachusetts.

Review:

"An illuminating book, regardless of where we were born." Boston Globe

"Wonderful and important." - Pat Conroy

"Charmingly written." People Magazine

About this edition

• Publisher: Ticknor & Fields
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0899198600
• ISBN 13: 9780899198606
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 210