Such a Life.
Lee Martin tells us in his memoir, "I was never meant to come along. My parents married late. My father was thirty-eight, my mother forty-one. When he found out she was pregnant, he asked the doctor, 'Can you get rid of it?'" From such an inauspicious beginning, Martin began coll...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Lincoln :
UNP - Nebraska Paperback,
2012.
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Full text (Wentworth users only) |
Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Summary: | Lee Martin tells us in his memoir, "I was never meant to come along. My parents married late. My father was thirty-eight, my mother forty-one. When he found out she was pregnant, he asked the doctor, 'Can you get rid of it?'" From such an inauspicious beginning, Martin began collecting impressions that, through the tincture of time and the magic of his narrative gift, have become the finely wrought pieces of Such a Life. Whether recounting the observations of a solemn child, understood only much later, or exploring the intricacies of neighborhood politics at middle age, Martin offers u. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (229 pages) |
ISBN: | 9780803240131 0803240139 |
Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |