Where I Come from: 02 (A.C. Greene Series) - Softcover

Woolley, Bryan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1574411640 ISBN 13: 9781574411645

Verlag: University of North Texas Press,U.S., 2003

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Unusual book

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"Where I Come From is about folks across the street who seem to be the usual neighbors until we get caught up in their stories. Through their narratives, we know the courage and simplicity, honor and shame, ugliness and beauty they endure in living ordinary lives in these interesting times."

Reseña del editor

In 1999 Bryan Woolley of the The Dallas Morning News set out to record the stories of ordinary people in North Texas, to tell about their lives, especially their past, and how they became who they became. These stories were published in a column entitled "Where I Come From," which ran in the Sunday newspaper from May 1999 to December 2000, to great reader acclaim. Now, for the first time in book form, the best of those stories is gathered herein with photos of each storyteller. Among the people featured are a refugee who traveled a long road to Texas after the fall of Saigon; a ballet teacher who as a teenager joined the French Resistance against the Nazis; a rabbi who is also a country-music disc jockey; a survivor of Auschwitz; a woman who spends her life saving abandoned dogs; a South Dallas blues singer; a one-man band from Denton; and a shoe salesman who is also a minister. Each story is told in the teller's words, making this collection a valuable resource for oral historians as well as for all those who enjoy a good story.

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• Verlag: University of North Texas Press,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1574411640
• ISBN 13: 9781574411645
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 280