The Bookmaker's Daughter

The Bookmaker's Daughter
Author: Shirley Abbott
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2006-03-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1557288216

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Richly detailed with family anecdotes, feminist insight, history, sociology, and Southern mythology, this memoir chronicles Abbott's volatile relationship with her father, a bookie at an illegal gambling house. "A moving attempt to understand . . . how a bitter failure of a man was also the father of a real maker of books".--Valerie Sayers, New York Times Book Review.


The Bookmaker's Daughter
Language: en
Pages: 323
Authors: Shirley Abbott
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-03-30 - Publisher: University of Arkansas Press

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Richly detailed with family anecdotes, feminist insight, history, sociology, and Southern mythology, this memoir chronicles Abbott's volatile relationship with
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Language: en
Pages: 326
Authors: Shirley Abbott
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: University of Arkansas Press

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An Excerpt from The Bookmaker's Daughter
Language: en
Pages: 38
Authors: Shirley Abbott
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Language: en
Pages: 266
Authors: Sandra Lansky
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-03-04 - Publisher: Hachette Books

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Sandi Lansky Lombardo grew up the only daughter of mob boss Meyer Lansky. Raised in upper-class Jewish splendor, first at the Majestic Hotel and then at the Ber
The Bookmaker
Language: en
Pages: 373
Authors: Michael J. Agovino
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-10-06 - Publisher: Harper Collins

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Marking the debut of a gifted new writer, The Bookmaker teems with humanity, empathy, humor, and insight. At the heart of Michael J. Agovino's powerful, layered