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1 online resource |
Contents |
Prologue -- History and practical math -- Regional trades -- On the down-low -- Drinks are on the house -- Intermission -- In the event of an apocalypse -- Serfs and landlords -- Depredating deer -- A dress rehearsal -- Epilogue |
Summary |
"A misfit in Spooner, Wisconsin with its farms, bars, and strip joints, Debra Monroe leaves to earn a degree, then another, another, and builds a career--if only because her plans to be a Midwestern housewife continually get scuttled. Her professional life improves because she's good at 'hard-core feigning.' Fearless but naive, she vaults over class barriers, but never quite leaves her past behind. When it comes to men, she's still blue-collar. Monroe pays careful attention to what love and sex mean to a 'liberated' woman: to the pressure to be assertive yet not too assertive; to different prices women pay for being 'sultry-powerful' or 'brainy-powerful.' Both the story of her steady rise into the professional class and a parallel history of unsuitable exes, this memoir reminds us how accidental even a good life can be. If Joan Didion advises us 'to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, ' Monroe takes this advice a step further and nods at the people she might have become but didn't. Funny, poignant, wise, My Unsentimental Education explores the confusion that ensues when a working class girl ends up far from where she began"--Provided by publisher |
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Monroe, Debra.
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Monroe, Debra -- Relations with men
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SUBJECT |
Monroe, Debra fast |
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Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
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Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
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Working class women -- United States -- Biography
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Single mothers -- United States -- Biography
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Man-woman relationships -- United States
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Sex role -- United States
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Working class families -- Wisconsin -- Spooner
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Parenting -- Single Parent.
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Relations with men
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Authors, American
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Man-woman relationships
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Sex role
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Single mothers
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Women authors, American
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Working class families
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Working class women
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Spooner (Wis.) -- Biography
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United States
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Wisconsin -- Spooner
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Genre/Form |
autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780820348735 |
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0820348732 |
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