Chinaberry Sidewalks

Rodney Crowell

eBook - 2011

From the acclaimed musician comes a tender, surprising, and often uproarious memoir about his dirt-poor southeast Texas boyhood.The only child of a hard-drinking father and a Holy Roller mother, Rodney Crowell was no stranger to bombast from an early age, whether knock-down-drag-outs at a local dive bar or fire-and-brimstone sermons at Pentecostal tent revivals. He was an expert at reading his father’s mercurial moods and gauging exactly when his mother was likely to erupt, and even before he learned to ride a bike, he was often forced to take matters into his own hands. He broke up his parents’ raucous New Year’s Eve party with gunfire and ended their slugfest at the local drive-in (actual restaurants weren’t on the Crowells’ men...u) by smashing a glass pop bottle over his own head.Despite the violent undercurrents always threatening to burst to the surface, he fiercely loved his epilepsy-racked mother, who scorned boring preachers and...

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Published
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language
English
Main Author
Rodney Crowell
Online Access
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Adobe EPUB eBook
File Size3 GB
ISBN9780307595218
Release Date1/18/2011
Kindle Book
ASINB004C43G6K
Release Date1/18/2011
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9780307595218
Release Date1/18/2011