Getaway Girl

Name: Getaway Girl
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ISBN: 9781844715114

ISBN-10: 1844715116

ISBN-13: 9781844715114

Edition: 2011

Authors: Brady, Terry Ann Thaxton

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Terry Ann Thaxton sifts through the images of a childhood half-buried among the pines and saw palmetto of her native Florida and unearths a child orphaned by abuse. In a home where “Southern Baptists exchange judgments,” she hides among a tribe of siblings, roaming the woods and playing games that hold equal degrees of cruelty and love. At the first opportunity she flees – into the arms of more abuse, then, wildly, into years where “suitcases fell from the closet” and “she thinks of marching toward [the pond], / perhaps reaching a gray cloud, pulling the switch.” And yet, somehow, “the sky offers its philanthropy all day.” The genealogy of despair is also the genealogy of hope. In the…

Book details

List price: $9.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Salt Publishing
Publication date: 3/15/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 84
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.21" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English

Terry Ann Thaxton is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Central Florida, USA.