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Leaving Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin
Leaving Pipe Shop Memories of Kin
Author: Deborah McDowell
In the illuminating language of memory, Deborah McDowell tells the story of her family, living a segregated life in Bessemer, Alabama, where her father worked at U.S. Foundry and Pipe, nicknamed Pipe Shop. Through the intimate details of their daily lives, she shows us how civil rights affected a working-class town, among three generations o...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780393318432
ISBN-10: 0393318435
Publication Date: 9/1998
Pages: 288
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Publisher: W. W. Norton Company
Book Type: Paperback
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I read this for a class -- wouldn't have picked it up otherwise, but found it to be a very interesting book. There are one or two stray marks toward the beginning of the book; but after a few chapters, I forgot I was reading for a class. (That's a good thing.) It is a compelling account of the author's experiences growing up in a working class Alabama family in the 1950's.


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