Publication

1995-03-01 - University of Wisconsin Press

Language

English

Word Count

43,000 words, Guess

Page Count

172 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number94024164
  • LibraryThing2811088

Classifications

  • LCCCT275.P582 A3 1995
  • DDC977.5/04/092

Description

The year was 1951, and Nell Peters, just out of high school in the north woods of Wisconsin, was about to join the army. Feeling woefully unworldly, she asked the undertaker's grandson to initiate her into sex before she ventured off. She wasn't in the WACs long before she found herself pregnant and heading home to face the kind of adventure she hadn't looked for. An outrageous fortune, but of a piece with Nell's whole story, from her harrowing birth in a snowstorm to her current occupation running a perpetual garage sale to benefit disabled veterans. Sometimes funny, sometimes gritty, always wildly candid and sexual, this is a remarkable account of a woman's life lived in extremity.

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  • Nell's StoryPaperbackUniversity of Wisconsin Press1995-03-01

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