Beauty before comfort
a memoir
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
2003 - Alfred A. Knopf, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
47,250 words, Guess
Page Count
189 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL23247700M
- Internet Archivebeautybeforecomf00gloc
- ISBN-100375401210
- ISBN-139780375401213
- Goodreads1727354
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- LibraryThing281930
- Library of Congress Control Number2002030184
- OCLC Control Number50511550
Description
""The first lesson [my grandmother] ever taught me was that dancing matters... When she did come across men she fancied who didn't dance, she sent them away until they did. They always learned, because my grandmother was bitingly beautiful, and that is the second lesson she taught me - that beauty inspires, all of God's beauty, but especially hers."" "So writes Allison Glock at the start of her memoir of her maternal grandmother, Aneita Jean Blair, a woman who came of age during the Depression in a West Virginia factory town yet refused to succumb to the desperation that surrounded her. Instead, Aneita Jean rouged her cheeks and kicked up her heels and did her best to forget the realities of life in an insular community where your neighbors could be as unforgiving as the Appalachian landscape. Before it was all over, Aneita Jean would have seven marriage proposals and her share of the tragedies that befall small-town girls with bushels of suitors and bodies like Miss America, girls "who dare to see past the dusty perimeters of their lives."" "Glock travels back through time, assisted by a fistful of old photos and the piercing childhood memories of her grandmother, "a skinny, eager child with disobedient hair and bottomless longing." Together they guide us through the cramped dankness of the pottery plants, the dense sweetness of the holler, and into the surging promise of the Ohio River, capturing not only the irrepressible vitality of Aneita Jean Blair, but also the rich ambiance of working-class West Virginia during the twenties, the Great Depression, and World War II."--BOOK JACKET.
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