Priestdaddy [electronic resource] : A Memoir
Patricia Lockwood2017
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The childhood of Patricia Lockwood, the poet dubbed 'The Smutty-Metaphor Queen
of Lawrence, Kansas' by The New York Times, was unusual in many respects. There
was the location: an impoverished, nuclear waste-riddled area of the American
Midwest. There was her mother, a woman who speaks almost entirely in strange
riddles and arnings of impending danger. Above all, there was her gun-toting,
guitar-riffing, frequently semi-naked father, who underwent a religious
conversion on a submarine and found a loophole which saw him approved for the
Catholic priesthood by the future Pope Benedict XVI, despite already having a
wife and children.
When an unexpected crisis for...
Main title:
Priestdaddy [electronic resource] : A Memoir / Patricia Lockwood
Author:
Patricia Lockwood, Author
Imprint:
London : Penguin, 2017
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781846149214
Language:
English
BRN:
446861
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eBook |