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Bleachy-Haired Honky Bitch Tales from a Bad Neighborhood

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ISBN-10: 0060561998

ISBN-13: 9780060561994

Edition: N/A

Authors: Hollis Gillespie

List price: $15.99
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Drawing on her peripatetic childhood as the daughter of a travelling salesman, and her adult residence in one of Atlanta's seedier crack neighbourhoods, columnist and NPR commentator Hollis Gillespie has assembled a comic, poignant memoir about her life, starring her unusual family and her crazy friends. NPR commentator Hollis Gillespie's outrageously funny-and equally heartbreaking-collection of autobiographical tales chronicles her journey through self-reckoning and the worst neighbourhoods in Atlanta in search of a home she can call her own. The daughter of a missile scientist and an alcoholic travelling trailer salesman, Gillespie was nine before she realized not everybody's mother…    
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Book details

List price: $15.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 6/28/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Hollis Gillespie, a Writer's Digest Breakout Author of the Year, is a regular commentator on NPR's All Things Considered , the award-winning writer of "Mood Swing," a humor column published in Creative Loafing , Atlanta's major alternative weekly, and author of "The Ugly American," a travel column for Paste magazine. Also the author of Bleachy-Haired Honky Bitch , which Vanity Fair called "rib-crackingly funny," she lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with two cats, an incontinent pit bull, and her six-year-old daughter.