| Southern Sin: True Stories of the Sultry South and Women Behaving Badly Contributor(s): Gutkind, Lee (Editor), Fennelly, Beth Ann (Editor), Allison, Dorothy (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1937163105 ISBN-13: 9781937163105 Publisher: In Fact Books OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2014 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Travel | Essays & Travelogues - Travel | United States - South - General |
| Dewey: 814 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.60 lbs) 350 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - South |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 23 strange-but-true stories of women flirting with perdition... In the steamy South, temptation is as wild and plentiful as kudzu. Whether the sin in question is skinny-dipping or becoming an unlikely porn star, running rum or renting out a room to a pair of exhibitionistic adulterers, in these true stories women defy tradition and forge their own paths through life--often learning unexpected lessons from the experience. As Dorothy Allison writes in her introduction, "The most dangerous stories are the true ones, the ones we hesitate to tell, the adventures laden with fear or shame or the relentless pull of regret. Some of those are about things that we are secretly deeply proud to have done." A diverse array of contributors--mothers, daughters, sisters, best friends, fianc es, divorcees, professors, poets, lifeguards-in-training, lapsed Baptists, tipsy debutantes, middle-aged lesbians--lend their voices to this collection. Introspective and abashed, joyous and triumphant (but almost never apologetic), they remind us that sin, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. |