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Holloway, Janet Steele

 
9781477281079: A Willful Child
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ISBN 10 : 147728107X ISBN 13 : 9781477281079
Editeur : Authorhouse, 2012

Synopsis

A Willful Child A story of Betrayals and Beginnings Janet Steele Holloway's debut is as dazzling as the West Virginia countryside she describes. Her father a hardworking coalminer, her granny an unrepentant bootlegger, Holloway remembers a childhood grasping at the shards of a shattering family. She emerges as a young woman ready for anything. This memoir is poignant, brutal, funny, inspired. Neil Chethik, author of FatherLoss Painful, warm and wise, Janet Steele Holloway's debut memoir, A Willful Child, vividly portrays a remarkable yet ordinary family whose life is more typical of post-war America than we'd like to think. At the mercy of an unstable, beautiful mother and a coal miner father in the boom-and-bust mountain economy, Holloway's childhood is spent on the move from coal camp, to her granny's beer garden, to a farm in southwest Virginia, to both coasts of Florida, and back to the mountains. Billie Brown, her pragmatic bootlegging granny, supplies rootedness, but cannot assuage her own daughter's restless discontent or shore up the headstrong streak that will become her granddaughter's greatest strength. A Willful Child shows us how a girl-becoming-a-woman gathers courage, confidence, and wisdom to weave a self from the pieces and places of a fragmented life. Leatha Kendrick, author of Second Opinion This gripping story speaks for many Appalachian women and children who broke away from mountain culture to live a life of promise and success and never forgot their mountain heritage. Janet Holloway tells an engaging story of a bright child caught in the ruins of her parents' marriage and her determination to create a productive, creative life for herself. Jane Stephenson, founder of New Opportunity School for Women; Author, Courageous Paths: Stories of Nine Appalachian Women

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Présentation de l'éditeur

A Willful Child A story of Betrayals and Beginnings Janet Steele Holloway's debut is as dazzling as the West Virginia countryside she describes. Her father a hardworking coalminer, her granny an unrepentant bootlegger, Holloway remembers a childhood grasping at the shards of a shattering family. She emerges as a young woman ready for anything. This memoir is poignant, brutal, funny, inspired. Neil Chethik, author of FatherLoss Painful, warm and wise, Janet Steele Holloway's debut memoir, A Willful Child, vividly portrays a remarkable yet ordinary family whose life is more typical of post-war America than we'd like to think. At the mercy of an unstable, beautiful mother and a coal miner father in the boom-and-bust mountain economy, Holloway's childhood is spent on the move from coal camp, to her granny's beer garden, to a farm in southwest Virginia, to both coasts of Florida, and back to the mountains. Billie Brown, her pragmatic bootlegging granny, supplies rootedness, but cannot assuage her own daughter's restless discontent or shore up the headstrong streak that will become her granddaughter's greatest strength. A Willful Child shows us how a girl-becoming-a-woman gathers courage, confidence, and wisdom to weave a self from the pieces and places of a fragmented life. Leatha Kendrick, author of Second Opinion This gripping story speaks for many Appalachian women and children who broke away from mountain culture to live a life of promise and success and never forgot their mountain heritage. Janet Holloway tells an engaging story of a bright child caught in the ruins of her parents' marriage and her determination to create a productive, creative life for herself. Jane Stephenson, founder of New Opportunity School for Women; Author, Courageous Paths: Stories of Nine Appalachian Women

Biographie de l'auteur

A graduate of Marshall University and SUNY-Stony Brook, Janet Steele Holloway left Appalachia to live in NYC for twenty-five years, then returned to the region in 1990. She is the founder of Women Leading Kentucky, Inc. a successful non-profit designed to create opportunities for women to lead, learn and give back to their communities. Janet has managed statewide small business programs for New Jersey and Kentucky and served as president of the national Association of Small Business Development Centers in 1993. She has published profiles of business leaders in various media including Entrepreneur Magazine and Business Lexington. She was recognized as a finalist in the Best Writers Competition in 2008, and again in 2011, in the Harriet Rose Legacy Competition, both sponsored by the Carnegie Center for Literacy & Learning. As a child, Janet set a goal of visiting all 48 states and reached this goal but still has North Dakota and Alaska on her list since there are now 50. She plans to travel to Alaska in the spring of 2013. This Logan County. West Virginia native lives in Lexington, KY, loves to travel and continues to write.

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Éditeur
Authorhouse
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
147728107X
ISBN 13 
9781477281079
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
180
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