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Cyra McFadden Rain or Shine (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Rain or Shine : a Family Memoir
- Publication Name
- Rain or Shine
- Title
- Rain or Shine
- Subtitle
- A Family Memoir
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0803282419
- EAN
- 9780803282414
- ISBN
- 9780803282414
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Genre
- Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography
- Topic
- General, Entertainment & Performing Arts
- Release Year
- 1998
- Release Date
- 01/01/1998
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Weight
- 23.5 Oz
- Item Length
- 9.8 in
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Item Width
- 5.9 in
- Number of Pages
- 178 Pages
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Product Information
Cy Taillon was the molasses-voiced king of rodeo announcers. When he died in 1980, newspapers in the West canonized him as the dean of rodeo and compared him to John Wayne. A reformed rake, handsome and charming and flashy, he was also difficult, often more lovable to the public than to his family. In the thirties he married a spitfire dancer from Arkansas who changed her name from Nedra Ann to Patricia, and they hit the road in pursuit of stardom. Their daughter, Cyra, grew up on the rodeo circuit, traveling all over the West with her free-spirited, hell-raising parents, often eating hamburgers and sleeping in the Packard. She was the mascot, dressed in cowboy gear in spite of her father, who wanted her to look like Shirley Temple. Rain or Shine is the story of Cyra's complex relationship with her parents and eccentric relatives. She looks back with pride, regret, and humor on family life spent and misspent in the gaudy, gritty world of rodeo. Cyra McFadden, who lives in San Francisco, is the author of The Serial, a bestselling parody of life in Marin County, California.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN-10
0803282419
ISBN-13
9780803282414
eBay Product ID (ePID)
493532
Product Key Features
Book Title
Rain or Shine : a Family Memoir
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, Entertainment & Performing Arts
Publication Year
1998
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography
Number of Pages
178 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.8 in
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Width
5.9 in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Gv742.42.T35m34 1998
Reviews
"She tells a strong story well, tuning in to the sadness and the humor of it with equal accuracy."-New Yorker., "This funny, affecting memoir achieves a series of satisfying reconciliations. Author McFadden not only portrays and then patches up the quarrels and estrangements that raged between her and her father, she captures the tawdry colors of the Old West and mourns their fading. . . . McFadden has the rare skill of stripping away pretensions without making the people exposed seem ridiculous."-Time., ""The considerable power of this book and of these lives [is] burned permanently into the reader's memory.""--Thomas McGuane, New York Times Book Review ""This funny, affecting memoir achieves a series of satisfying reconciliations. Author McFadden not only portrays and then patches up the quarrels and estrangements that raged between her and her father, she captures the tawdry colors of the Old West and mourns their fading. . . . McFadden has the rare skill of stripping away pretensions without making the people exposed seem ridiculous.""-- Time ""She tells a strong story well, tuning in to the sadness and the humor of it with equal accuracy.""-- New Yorker ""To make sense of her parents and herself, to unpeel them without fury or sentiment and also without turning everyone into fictional characters, a writer would need to go beyond autobiography into art. And this is what Cyra McFadden has done in her dazzling Rain or Shine.""-- Ms., "She tells a strong story well, tuning in to the sadness and the humor of it with equal accuracy."- New Yorker, "The considerable power of this book and of these lives [is burned permanently into the reader's memory."-Thomas McGuane, New York Times Book Review, "This funny, affecting memoir achieves a series of satisfying reconciliations. Author McFadden not only portrays and then patches up the quarrels and estrangements that raged between her and her father, she captures the tawdry colors of the Old West and mourns their fading. . . . McFadden has the rare skill of stripping away pretensions without making the people exposed seem ridiculous."- Time ., "She tells a strong story well, tuning in to the sadness and the humor of it with equal accuracy."- New Yorker ., "The considerable power of this book and of these lives [is] burned permanently into the reader's memory."-Thomas McGuane,New York Times Book Review, "This funny, affecting memoir achieves a series of satisfying reconciliations. Author McFadden not only portrays and then patches up the quarrels and estrangements that raged between her and her father, she captures the tawdry colors of the Old West and mourns their fading. . . . McFadden has the rare skill of stripping away pretensions without making the people exposed seem ridiculous."- Time, "She tells a strong story well, tuning in to the sadness and the humor of it with equal accuracy."-New Yorker, "The considerable power of this book and of these lives [is] burned permanently into the reader's memory."-Thomas McGuane,New York Times Book Review., "To make sense of her parents and herself, to unpeel them without fury or sentiment and also without turning everyone into fictional characters, a writer would need to go beyond autobiography into art. And this is what Cyra McFadden has done in her dazzling Rain or Shine."- Ms., "This funny, affecting memoir achieves a series of satisfying reconciliations. Author McFadden not only portrays and then patches up the quarrels and estrangements that raged between her and her father, she captures the tawdry colors of the Old West and mourns their fading. . . . McFadden has the rare skill of stripping away pretensions without making the people exposed seem ridiculous."-Time, "To make sense of her parents and herself, to unpeel them without fury or sentiment and also without turning everyone into fictional characters, a writer would need to go beyond autobiography into art. And this is what Cyra McFadden has done in her dazzling Rain or Shine."-Ms., "The considerable power of this book and of these lives [is] burned permanently into the reader's memory."-Thomas McGuane, New York Times Book Review, "The considerable power of this book and of these lives [is] burned permanently into the reader's memory."-Thomas McGuane, New York Times Book Review .
Lccn
97-039943
Dewey Decimal
813/.52
Dewey Edition
19
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