| Johnny's Girl: A Daughter's Memoir of Growing Up I Contributor(s): Rich, Kim (Author) |
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ISBN: 0882405241 ISBN-13: 9780882405247 Publisher: Graphic Arts Books OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1999 Annotation: Kim Rich's parents came to Alaska to get rich, and ended up working the gambling and B-joints of Anchorage. In probing the mysteries of their lives, Rich comes to terms with her own. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Women - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography | Editors, Journalists, Publishers |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 99023087 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.84 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Pacific Northwest - Geographic Orientation - Alaska - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Kim Rich was an ordinary girl trapped in an extraordinary childhood, someone who dreamed of going to parties and getting good grades while living in an after-hours hell of pimps and con men. Kim Rich longed for normalcy, yet she was inescapably her father's child, and she had no choice but to grow up fast. Her mother was a stripper and B-girl: her father was a major player in the underworld of Anchorage, Alaska in the sixties, a city flush with newfound oil money. Only after her father was gruesomely murdered and Kim became a journalist was she able to fill in the missing pieces of one American dream gone horribly wrong. Kim's true story is a tale of a woman's search for her parent's secrets. What she finds is both shocking and tragic, but in the end she's able to discover her true self amid the remnants of her parents' lost lives. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rich, Kim: - Born in Hollywood, raised in Anchorage, Alaska, Kim Rich has an MFA degree in writing from Columbia University, and has taught at Alaska Pacific University. She now lives in the lower 48, outside of Alaska. A Normal Life is the follow-up to her critically acclaimed memoir, Johnny's Girl: A Daughter's Memoir of Growing Up In Alaska's Underworld. |
