Research Catalog

Title

When we were ghouls : a memoir of ghost stories / Amy E. Wallen.

Author

Wallen, Amy

Publication

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2018]

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Details

Description

279 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"Plumbing the slipperiness of memory and confronting what it means to be a "good" human, Amy Wallen links the fear of loss and mortality to childhood ideas of permanence as she grapples with the fact that her parents were grave robbers"--

Series Statement

American lives

Uniform Title

American lives.

Subject

• Wallen, Amy > Childhood and youth
• Wallen, Amy > Homes and haunts
• Authors, American > Biography
• Right and wrong
• Grave robbing
• Memory

Genre/Form

Autobiographies.

Note

• "The essay 'When We Were Ghouls' was originally published in the Gettysburg Review 29, no. 1 (Spring 2016)."

Contents

Redneck arrival -- My baptism -- Under the dogonyaro tree -- Without the other -- What won't rub off -- From gypsy to socialite -- Bees and bad men -- Christmas execution -- Pine-solo -- New knees -- The vestibule -- Deer in the headlights -- Arriving at midnight -- Seeds don't grow in a hotel -- Buche de noel -- The Lima welcome wagon -- Godzilla, the witch, and the wardrobe -- Black magic and a guitar solo -- Phantom limb -- Christmas bird -- Our best imitation of gringos -- The butcher gets bigger -- Taking flight -- Tabloids and cigarettes -- Politicians in the living room -- The chicken-wire menagerie -- What I do see -- Helter skelter -- Images on a paper soul -- What remains.

Call Number

JFD 18-984

ISBN

• 9780803296954
• 0803296959

LCCN

2017037691

OCLC

1009214262

Author

Wallen, Amy, author.

Title

When we were ghouls : a memoir of ghost stories / Amy E. Wallen.

Publisher

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2018]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

American lives

American lives.

Research Call Number

JFD 18-984