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000774540 1001_ $$aPleska, Cat,$$d1953-$$eauthor.
000774540 24510 $$aRiding on comets :$$ba memoir /$$cCat Pleska.
000774540 250__ $$aFirst edition.
000774540 264_1 $$aMorgantown :$$bVandalia Press,$$c2015.
000774540 300__ $$a1 online resource (258 pages)
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000774540 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000774540 5050_ $$aIMAGES... -- No Salt -- Trick or Treat -- A Tone -- Give Me My Hat -- Big Earl's -- A Brush with the Law -- In Mommaw's Kitchen -- AWAKENING... -- What We Called Home -- From a Time Before -- Night Light -- Cicada Buzz -- AWARENESS... -- I Spy -- Shelter -- Back Home -- Devil Faces -- Something Gathers 'Round Me -- House of Leaves -- Plunder -- REACTION... -- Alarm Clock -- My Civic Duty -- The Nervous Hospital -- My Kingdom for a Horse -- Night on Cheat Mountain I -- Night on Cheat Mountain II -- CarniVAL -- War -- The Sailor man -- LOSS... -- In the Cellar -- Reckoning -- Exception to the Rule -- Charmed -- I've Drawed up a Mite -- 900 Degrees Celsius -- Twin Haloes -- The Phone Rings -- Attention K-Mart Shoppers! Do the Dead Wear Underwear? -- We Shall Gather -- Riding on Comets -- Night on Cheat Mountain III -- Fall -- STRENGTH... -- Liminal -- Dragon's Tale -- Epilogue -- Author Bio -- Book Discussion.
000774540 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users.
000774540 5202_ $$a"Riding on Comets is the true story of an only child growing up in a working-class family during the 1950s and '60s. As the family storyteller, Cat Pleska whispers and shouts about her life growing up around savvy, strong women and hard-working, hard-drinking men. Unlike many family stories set within Appalachia, this story provides an uncommon glimpse into this region: not coal, but an aluminum plant; not hollers, but small-town America; not hillbillies, but a hard-working family with traditional values. From the dinner table, to the back porch, to the sprawling countryside, Cat Pleska reveals the sometimes tender, sometimes frightening education of a child who listens at the knees of these giants. She mimics and learns every nuance, every rhythm--how they laugh, smoke, cuss, fight, love, and tell stories--as she unwittingly prepares to carry their tales forward, their words and actions forever etched in her mind. And finally, she discovers a life story of her own"--$$cProvided by publisher.
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000774540 60010 $$aPleska, Cat,$$d1953-$$xChildhood and youth.
000774540 60010 $$aPleska, Cat,$$d1953-$$xFamily.
000774540 650_0 $$aAppalachians (People)$$zWest Virginia$$vBiography.
000774540 650_0 $$aOnly child$$vBiography.
000774540 650_0 $$aWorking class families$$zWest Virginia$$vBiography.
000774540 651_0 $$aWest Virginia$$xSocial life and customs$$y20th century.
000774540 651_0 $$aSaint Albans (W. Va.)$$vBiography.
000774540 651_0 $$aSaint Albans (W. Va.)$$xSocial life and customs$$y20th century.
000774540 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aPleska, Cat.$$tRiding on comets : a memoir.$$dMorgantown : Vandalia Press, 2015$$z9781940425511
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