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Summary: A memoir by a celebrated "outsider" artist details how her dirt-poor childhood, her strange family, and her father's illness shaped her into the person she is today.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ST. JOHN, LINDA STJMoss, Barbara Robinette.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.2 MOSMoss, Barbara Robinette.
Summary: A haunting and triumphant story of a difficult and keenly felt life, Change Me into Zeus's Daughter is a remarkable literary memoir of resilience, redemption, and growing up in the South. Barbara Robinette Moss was the fourth in a family of eight children raised in the red-clay hills of Alabama. Their wild-eyed, alcoholic father was a charismatic and irrationally proud man who, when sober,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.292 MOSWalls, Jeannette.
Summary: Journalist Walls grew up with parents whose ideals and stubborn nonconformity were their curse and their salvation. Rex and Rose Mary and their four children lived like nomads, moving among Southwest desert towns, camping in the mountains. Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children's imagination, teaching them how to embrace life fearlessly. Rose Mary painted...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010