A Serigamy of Stories - Hardcover

Windham, Kathryn Tucker

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0878053549 ISBN 13: 9780878053544

Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi, 1988

Synopsis

The author shares her memories of her family, home town, classmates, neighbors, piano teacher, and childhood experiences

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Appealing reminiscences of small-town life by one of the South's most enchanting oral storytellers

From Publishers Weekly:

In this memoir, a child's recollections of her family and warm home life are lovingly preserved in a front-porch ambience. Windham, who frequently participates in oral storytelling sessions around the country, grew up in a small Alabama town in the early part of this century. She was surrounded by offbeat adults in those years, among them a doughty aunt, who was the town's formidable postmistress, and a circuit-riding Baptist-preacher grandfather. They were fodder for legends within the family, as well as story-creators themselves. As Windham weaves her memories there are digressions into tales that mark the castes of a bygone South, tales that move in slow cadence and bring to life a family that accommodated all members in their entertaining oddities. The word "serigamy" is, according to the author, a family coinage, used through the generations to indicate "a goodly number," and the word aptly applies as well to this charming retrospective. Illustrations not seen by PW.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0878053549
• ISBN 13: 9780878053544
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160