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Author Harrigan, Sharon

Title Playing with Dynamite : a Memoir
Published Kirksville, MO : Truman State University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (249 pages)
Series Contemporary Nonfiction
Contemporary Nonfiction
Contents Dedication -- Epigraph -- Prologue -- Part 1: Stories We Tell -- Part 2: The Y -- Part 3: Paris -- Part 4: Season of Grief -- Part 5: Downstate -- Part 6: Up North -- Part 7: Phantom Limbs -- Acknowledgments
Summary Sharon Harrigan's father was larger than life, a brilliant but troubled man who blew off his hand with dynamite before she was born and died in a mysterious and bizarre accident when she was seven. The story of his death never made sense. How did he really die? And why was she so sure that asking would be dangerous? A series of events compel her to find the answers, collecting other people's memories and uncovering her own
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Subject Harrigan, Sharon, 1967- -- Family
Fathers and daughters -- United States -- Biography
Fathers -- Death.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Families
Fathers and daughters
Fathers -- Death
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781612482118
1612482112
9781612482101
1612482104