Riding on comets : a memoir / Cat Pleska.
Pleska, Cat, 1953- author.
2015
F245.42.P55 A3 2015eb
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Title Riding on comets : a memoir / Cat Pleska.
Author Pleska, Cat, 1953- author.
Edition First edition.
ISBN 9781940425511
9781940425535 (electronic book)
Published Morgantown : Vandalia Press, 2015.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (258 pages)
Call Number F245.42.P55 A3 2015eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 975.4/043
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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IMAGES...
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.

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