An American Childhood - Annie Dillard [106]
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
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Copyright
AN AMERICAN CHILDHOOD. Copyright © 1987 by Annie Dillard. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
EPub Edition © JULY 2007 ISBN: 9780061843136
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Contents
Map
Prologue
Part One
The Story Starts Back in...
The Interior Life...
Our Parents And Grandparents...
There Was A Big Snow...
Jo Ann Sheehy...
These Are The Few...
Next To One Of Our Side...
I Walked...
Some Boys Taught Me...
Our Parents Would Sooner...
Our Father's Parents Lived...
We Had Moved When...
Part Two
We Lived In A Clean City...
While Father Was Motoring...
The Interior Life Expands...
Amy Was A Looker...
A Tornado Hit Our Neighborhood...
One Sunday Afternoon...
The French And Indian War...
At School...
The Attic Bedroom...
But he said unto Jesus...
I Got My Rock Collection...
After I Read...
What Does it Feel Like...
Young Children have no Sense...
I Intended to Live...
We were moving that...
Since we had moved...
The Boys Were Changing...
That Morning in Church...
Years before this...
Part Three
Pittsburgh Wasn't Really...
As a Child I Read Hoping...
When I Was Fifteen...
I Quit the Church...
Now it Was May...
During Classes All Morning...
Epilogue
About the Author
Praise
Other Books by Annie Dillard
Copyright
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