The last resort : taking the Mississippi cure /
Raised under the racial segregation that kept her family's southern country hotel afloat, Norma Watkins grows up listening at doors, trying to penetrate the secrets and silences of the black help and of her parents' marriage. Groomed to be an ornament to white patriarchy, she sees herself...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2011.
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| Series: | Willie Morris books in memoir and biography.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | Raised under the racial segregation that kept her family's southern country hotel afloat, Norma Watkins grows up listening at doors, trying to penetrate the secrets and silences of the black help and of her parents' marriage. Groomed to be an ornament to white patriarchy, she sees herself failing at the ideal of becoming a southern lady. When a civil rights lawyer offers love and escape, does a good southern lady dare leave her home state and closed society behind? The Last Resort conveys at once the idyllic charm and the impossible compromises of a lost way of life. |
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| Item Description: | Project MUSE Universal EBA Ebooks |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 291 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9781604739787 1604739789 1283116588 9781283116589 9786613116581 6613116580 |
