Trailer Trashed My Dubious Efforts Toward Upward Mobility |
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Author:
| Gillespie, Hollis |
Series title: | Globe Pequot Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-59921-385-9 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2008 |
Publisher: | Globe Pequot Press, The
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | AUD $33.95 |
Book Description:
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Hollis Gillespie used to be embarrassed about having an alcoholic, trailer-salesman dad and a bomb-making mom with broken dreams of being a beautician. If anyone asked about her family, she would tell them her parents were wealthy and that she came from a refined background. She never mentioned the time they lived in a mobile home two miles north of the Tijuana border.
"Trailer Trashed" is a collection of interconnected...
More Description Hollis Gillespie used to be embarrassed about having an alcoholic, trailer-salesman dad and a bomb-making mom with broken dreams of being a beautician. If anyone asked about her family, she would tell them her parents were wealthy and that she came from a refined background. She never mentioned the time they lived in a mobile home two miles north of the Tijuana border.
"Trailer Trashed" is a collection of interconnected essays, ranging from hilarious to heart-breaking, all on one broad themeHollis Gillespie's relationships with her equally offbeat sisters, her precocious daughter, her bizarre friends, and the people they love. Think David Sedaris meets "Thelma & Louise."
"If David Sedaris had a vagina and wasn't such a pussy, he'd write like Hollis Gillespie." --Bust magazine