When all the world was young : a memoir /: a memoir. ([2010])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Barbara Holland.
• Other Names: Holland, Barbara
• Contents: In which the chairs & domestic habits of fathers are explored, & Nick is born -- In which mothers & their duties are considered & contrasted with the peculiarities of my own -- My education begins inauspiciously, & we travel to Florida -- School & I struggle with each other, plus hard times with the Old Testament -- In which the behavior of fathers is further elucidated, & a sister joins us -- Of war & other merry pastimes -- In which Mother contributes to the war effort -- The mountain : a pastoral digression -- The long dark night of junior high school -- From which I am rescued in the nick of time -- Mother returns to duty, plus considerations of sex & babies -- Mother finds a way & Grandmother rebuffs Senator McCarthy -- An embarrassing episode in which Gloria & I set forth on our travels & come back again -- Being a treatise on the origins & uses of aunts -- Continuing education -- Everyone leaves, everything changes -- I fail to make sense of normal life & fall into confusion -- My travels on the bottom of the lake -- In which I am saved again & live happily ever after -- That's all?
• Publisher Details: New York : Bloomsbury Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers
• Publication Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource (236 pages)
• Subjects: 813/.54 B; Biography & Autobiography -- Personal Memoirs; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography; Journalists -- United States -- Biography; Biography: general; Washington (D.C.) -- Social life and customs; Electronic books; Childhood and youth; Homes and haunts -- Washington (D. C.)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781596918078; 1596918071
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.