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100 1 _aMonroe, Debra,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aMy unsentimental education /
_cDebra Monroe.
246 1 4 _aMy unsentimental education :
_ba memoir
264 1 _aAthens :
_bThe University of Georgia Press,
_c[2015]
264 4 _c©2015
300 _a1 online resource (217 pages)
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
505 0 _aPrologue -- History and practical math -- Regional trades -- On the down-low -- Drinks are on the house -- Intermission -- In the event of an apocalypse -- Serfs and landlords -- Depredating deer -- A dress rehearsal -- Epilogue.
520 2 _a"A misfit in Spooner, Wisconsin with its farms, bars, and strip joints, Debra Monroe leaves to earn a degree, then another, another, and builds a career--if only because her plans to be a Midwestern housewife continually get scuttled. Her professional life improves because she's good at 'hard-core feigning.' Fearless but naive, she vaults over class barriers, but never quite leaves her past behind. When it comes to men, she's still blue-collar. Monroe pays careful attention to what love and sex mean to a 'liberated' woman: to the pressure to be assertive yet not too assertive; to different prices women pay for being 'sultry-powerful' or 'brainy-powerful.' Both the story of her steady rise into the professional class and a parallel history of unsuitable exes, this memoir reminds us how accidental even a good life can be. If Joan Didion advises us 'to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be,' Monroe takes this advice a step further and nods at the people she might have become but didn't. Funny, poignant, wise, My Unsentimental Education explores the confusion that ensues when a working class girl ends up far from where she began"--Provided by publisher.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
600 1 0 _aMonroe, Debra.
600 1 0 _aMonroe, Debra
_xRelations with men.
650 0 _aAuthors, American
_y20th century
_vBiography.
650 0 _aWomen authors, American
_y20th century
_vBiography.
650 0 _aWorking class women
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
650 0 _aSingle mothers
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
650 0 _aMan-woman relationships
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aSex role
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aWorking class families
_zWisconsin
_zSpooner.
651 0 _aSpooner (Wis.)
_vBiography.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aMonroe, Debra.
_tMy unsentimental education.
_dAthens : The University of Georgia Press, [2015]
_z9780820348742
797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
856 4 0 _uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=11091524
_zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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