ISBN: 9780813011431

Idella Parker's recollections of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings are as intimate and frank as their ten years together. This long-awaited memoir, written by the black woman who was cook, houseke… Mehr…

Idella Parker's recollections of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings are as intimate and frank as their ten years together. This long-awaited memoir, written by the black woman who was cook, housekeeper, and comfort to the famous author from 1940 to 1950, tells two stories - one of their spirited friendship, the other of race relations in rural Florida in the days before integration. Personal details - Marjorie's abandon behind the wheel of her cream-colored Oldsmobile, her boiled egg for breakfast, her shoe size, and her penchant for wearing mismatched ankle socks - accompany accounts of visits from Julia Scribner and Zora Neale Hurston, of Marjorie's unconventional marriage to Norton Baskin, and of their moves back and forth from Cross Creek to St. Augustine, Florida, and to Van Hornesville, New York. Idella describes Marjorie's work habits on the porch at Cross Creek - as time went by, she notes, a whiskey bottle, wrapped in a paper bag, often sat alongside the typewriter. By turns kind and generous, moody and depressed, Rawlings emerges as a woman of contrasts - someone "with few friends and many visitors . . . who seldom smiled". Promises to stop drinking were made and broken repeatedly, and Rawlings' emotional demands on Idella escalated. Idella quit working for her three times, leaving for good three years before Rawlings' death. "I loved her then, and I love her still, but what could I do?" she asks. Idella's own life is part of this memoir, too, as she describes her courtship and marriage, her family lineage back to Nat Turner, and what it was like to grow up in a segregated society. Media >, [PU: University of Florida Press]<

ISBN: 9780813011431

Idella Parker's recollections of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings are as intimate and frank as their ten years together. This long-awaited memoir, written by the black woman who was cook, houseke… Mehr…

Idella Parker's recollections of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings are as intimate and frank as their ten years together. This long-awaited memoir, written by the black woman who was cook, housekeeper, and comfort to the famous author from 1940 to 1950, tells two stories - one of their spirited friendship, the other of race relations in rural Florida in the days before integration. Personal details - Marjorie's abandon behind the wheel of her cream-colored Oldsmobile, her boiled egg for breakfast, her shoe size, and her penchant for wearing mismatched ankle socks - accompany accounts of visits from Julia Scribner and Zora Neale Hurston, of Marjorie's unconventional marriage to Norton Baskin, and of their moves back and forth from Cross Creek to St. Augustine, Florida, and to Van Hornesville, New York. Idella describes Marjorie's work habits on the porch at Cross Creek - as time went by, she notes, a whiskey bottle, wrapped in a paper bag, often sat alongside the typewriter. By turns kind and generous, moody and depressed, Rawlings emerges as a woman of contrasts - someone "with few friends and many visitors . . . who seldom smiled". Promises to stop drinking were made and broken repeatedly, and Rawlings' emotional demands on Idella escalated. Idella quit working for her three times, leaving for good three years before Rawlings' death. "I loved her then, and I love her still, but what could I do?" she asks. Idella's own life is part of this memoir, too, as she describes her courtship and marriage, her family lineage back to Nat Turner, and what it was like to grow up in a segregated society. Media >, [PU: University of Florida Press]<

1992, ISBN: 9780813011431

Hard cover, Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 156 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade., Very good in good dust jacket. Ex-library., FOLLOWING SPECIAL DESCRIPTION CAREFULLY:… Mehr…

Hard cover, Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 156 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade., Very good in good dust jacket. Ex-library., FOLLOWING SPECIAL DESCRIPTION CAREFULLY: This sale is for a EX-Library s USED BOOK Last Blank page may be Rip Off and Cover and 4 tips cover are(Good) DJ/Packaging(good) CD s is (not included). All old library s book containing marker s marks, tape residue, Jacket cover s cuts off, and library s information erased with marker. if you ve received the item and you are not at most 65% satisfied with this item, return the item., [PU: University Press of Florida]<

1992, ISBN: 9780813011431

University Press of Florida, Hardcover, 156 Seiten, Publiziert: 1992-09-30T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 0.32 kg, Verkaufsrang: 11122700, Novelists, Poets & Playwrights, Biography, Subj… Mehr…

University Press of Florida, Hardcover, 156 Seiten, Publiziert: 1992-09-30T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 0.32 kg, Verkaufsrang: 11122700, Novelists, Poets & Playwrights, Biography, Subjects, Books, Women, Contemporary Fiction, Short Stories, Women Writers & Fiction, Literary Fiction, Literary Theory & Movements, History & Criticism, Poetry, Drama & Criticism, Novels & Novelists, University Press of Florida, 1992<

1992, ISBN: 9780813011431

University Press of Florida, Hardcover, 156 Seiten, Publiziert: 1992-09-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 0.32 kg, Verkaufsrang: 1806517, United States, Historical, Biographies & Memoirs… Mehr…

University Press of Florida, Hardcover, 156 Seiten, Publiziert: 1992-09-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 0.32 kg, Verkaufsrang: 1806517, United States, Historical, Biographies & Memoirs, Subjects, Books, Women Authors, History & Criticism, Literature & Fiction, Women Writers, Women's Studies, Politics & Social Sciences, University Press of Florida, 1992<