The Bookmaker's Daughter: A Memory Unbound

A woman's memoir of her Arkansas childhood reflects southern history, sociology, and mythology as it chronicles her volatile relationship with her father, a bookie at an illegal gambling house. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

Biographies & Memoirs

Abbott, Shirley

Community & Culture

Ticknor & Fields

The author recounts her romantic life, from her Southern girlhood to her Parisian collegiate days to her marriage, motherhood, and divorce in New York, reflecting on the nature and costs of women's romantic quests. 10,000 first printing.

Love's Apprentice: The Romantic Education of a Modern Woman

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

In a rich blend of memoir and meditation, Abbott focuses her graceful and witty attention on mothers and daughters of the South. Theirs is a world of red dirt and backbreaking chores and roof-raising revival meeting--a far cry from the magnolias and mint juleps of Gone with the Wind.

Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South

Mariner Books

Shirley Abbott's new memoir charts her amorous education as a woman coming of emotional age in the second half of the twentieth century. Love's Apprentice will resonate with every woman who, despite her hard-earned knowledge of the limitations of love, will not be cured of it.

Love's Apprentice

Replica Books

1981. Author: Shirley Abbott. Publisher: Harry Abrams. 495 pages, including index. Large hardback with dust jacket.

The National Museum of American History

History

Americas

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

The Art of Food

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Cooking Methods

Little,Brown & Co

Shows and describes historic homes and gardens in Charleston, South Carolina, and discusses the historical background of each place

Historic Charleston (Great American Homes)

Arts & Photography

Vitale, Peter

Photography & Video

Oxmoor House

Historic Charleston Great American Homes

Oxmoor House, Incorporated

New Haven: Ticknor & Fields, 1983

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