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050 00 $aPN4874.G385$bA3 2004
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100 1 $aGillespie, Hollis.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003052700
245 10 $aBleachy-haired honky bitch :$btales from a bad neighborhood /$cHollis Gillespie.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bRegan Books,$c[2004], ©2004.
300 $a279 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
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520 1 $a"NPR commentator Hollis Gillespie's outrageously funny - and equally heartbreaking - collection of autobiographical tales chronicles her journey through self-reckoning and the worst neighborhoods of Atlanta in search of a home she can call her own. The daughter of a missile scientist and an alcoholic traveling trailer salesman, Gillespie was nine before she realized not everybody's mother made bombs, and thirty before she realized it was possible to live in one place longer than a six-month lease allows. Supporting her are the social outcasts she calls her best friends: Daniel, a talented and eccentric artist; Grant, who makes his living peddling folk art by a denounced nun who paints plywood signs with twisted evangelical sayings; and Lary, who often, out of compassion, offers to shoot her like a lame horse." "Hollis's friends help her battle the mess of obstacles that stand in her way - including her warped childhood, in which her parents moved her and her siblings around the country like carnival barkers, chasing missile-building contracts and other whimsies, such as her father's dream to patent and sell door-to-door the world's most wondrous key-chain. A past like this will make you doubt you'll ever have a future, much less roots. Miraculously, though, Gillespie manages to plant exactly that: roots, as wrested and dubious as they are."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aGillespie, Hollis.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003052700
650 0 $aJournalists$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008106101
852 00 $boff,glx$hPN4874.G385$iA3 2004