Riding on comets : : a memoir / / Cat Pleska.
"Riding on Comets is the true story of an only child growing up in a working-class family during the 1950s and '60s. As the family storyteller, Cat Pleska whispers and shouts about her life growing up around savvy, strong women and hard-working, hard-drinking men. Unlike many family storie...
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Place / Publishing House: | Morgantown : : Vandalia Press,, 2015. |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Edition: | First edition. |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (258 pages) |
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100 | 1 | |a Pleska, Cat, |d 1953- |e author. | |
245 | 1 | 0 | |a Riding on comets : |b a memoir / |c Cat Pleska. |
250 | |a First edition. | ||
264 | 1 | |a Morgantown : |b Vandalia Press, |c 2015. | |
300 | |a 1 online resource (258 pages) | ||
336 | |a text |2 rdacontent | ||
337 | |a computer |2 rdamedia | ||
338 | |a online resource |2 rdacarrier | ||
504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
505 | 0 | |a IMAGES... -- No Salt -- Trick or Treat -- A Tone -- Give Me My Hat -- Big Earl's -- A Brush with the Law -- In Mommaw's Kitchen -- AWAKENING... -- What We Called Home -- From a Time Before -- Night Light -- Cicada Buzz -- AWARENESS... -- I Spy -- Shelter -- Back Home -- Devil Faces -- Something Gathers 'Round Me -- House of Leaves -- Plunder -- REACTION... -- Alarm Clock -- My Civic Duty -- The Nervous Hospital -- My Kingdom for a Horse -- Night on Cheat Mountain I -- Night on Cheat Mountain II -- CarniVAL -- War -- The Sailor man -- LOSS... -- In the Cellar -- Reckoning -- Exception to the Rule -- Charmed -- I've Drawed up a Mite -- 900 Degrees Celsius -- Twin Haloes -- The Phone Rings -- Attention K-Mart Shoppers! Do the Dead Wear Underwear? -- We Shall Gather -- Riding on Comets -- Night on Cheat Mountain III -- Fall -- STRENGTH... -- Liminal -- Dragon's Tale -- Epilogue -- Author Bio -- Book Discussion. | |
520 | 2 | |a "Riding on Comets is the true story of an only child growing up in a working-class family during the 1950s and '60s. As the family storyteller, Cat Pleska whispers and shouts about her life growing up around savvy, strong women and hard-working, hard-drinking men. Unlike many family stories set within Appalachia, this story provides an uncommon glimpse into this region: not coal, but an aluminum plant; not hollers, but small-town America; not hillbillies, but a hard-working family with traditional values. From the dinner table, to the back porch, to the sprawling countryside, Cat Pleska reveals the sometimes tender, sometimes frightening education of a child who listens at the knees of these giants. She mimics and learns every nuance, every rhythm--how they laugh, smoke, cuss, fight, love, and tell stories--as she unwittingly prepares to carry their tales forward, their words and actions forever etched in her mind. And finally, she discovers a life story of her own"-- |c Provided by publisher. | |
588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
590 | |a Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. | ||
600 | 1 | 0 | |a Pleska, Cat, |d 1953- |x Childhood and youth. |
600 | 1 | 0 | |a Pleska, Cat, |d 1953- |x Family. |
650 | 0 | |a Appalachians (People) |z West Virginia |v Biography. | |
650 | 0 | |a Only child |v Biography. | |
650 | 0 | |a Working class families |z West Virginia |v Biography. | |
651 | 0 | |a West Virginia |x Social life and customs |y 20th century. | |
651 | 0 | |a Saint Albans (W. Va.) |v Biography. | |
651 | 0 | |a Saint Albans (W. Va.) |x Social life and customs |y 20th century. | |
655 | 4 | |a Electronic books. | |
776 | 0 | 8 | |i Print version: |a Pleska, Cat. |t Riding on comets : a memoir. |d Morgantown : Vandalia Press, 2015 |z 9781940425511 |w (DLC)18592942 |
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