{"product_id":"gay-as-a-grig-memories-of-a-north-texas-girlhood-paperback","title":"Gay as a Grig: Memories of a North Texas Girlhood - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEllen Bowie Holland\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEllen Bowie Holland grew up in a house at Weatherford, Texas, that had the \"motherly look of a large and gallant hen hovering over too many chicks\" and that was inhabited by a \"lively, warm-hearted family.\" This book is her record of the \"whole world of little things which enriched young lives\" in her small town.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBlessed with a discerning and sympathetic eye, she had much happiness to remember and record, and she employs a charming combination of nostalgia and comedy as she brings to life again these bygone days. Her childhood experiences are illuminated by the wisdom of maturity, and the whole is infused with a deft humor, developed through her skilled use of fantasy and through her ability to laugh at the pretensions of the Victorian life she saw.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHolland's book also is memorable as a record of her unforgettable parents: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Mother was born on Columbus Day, and she and Columbus had a lot in common. She liked to discover things for herself and nothing pleased her more than to nicely finish off a job that she had been told could not be done\" . . . \"She wasn't geared for solitary musing. Like a salmon at spawning time she liked to swim upstream against rushing waters and bash into boulders\" . . . \"Mother's pattern of neatness reached out in all directions\" . . . \"Mother, sheathed like an armadillo\" . . .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Father, silk-hatted, or swallow-tailed, distinguished almost beyond belief\" . . . \"I never heard him raise his voice or laugh aloud\" . . . \"Father was not witty but he had an absolutely delightful sense of nonsense. His humor came smoothly upon the scene\" . . .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThroughout the book the reader shares the author's consciousness of the vast distance between her own childhood and that of the grandchildren to whom the book is dedicated-a distance created by rapid technological change.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"From my window I look over an air-conditioned city and I see jets streaking across the sky and occasionally I hear one of them breaking the sound barrier\" . . . \"When I really want to awe myself I think about the fact that only one generation ago Mother saw friendly or marauding Indians roaming these same acres\" . . . \"Those of my age have come into a span of years where living conditions of all kinds have changed so abruptly, where obsolescence sets in so rapidly, that there is little in common between our infancy and our present.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEllen Bowie Holland lived in Fort Worth, Texas. She wrote articles for \u003ci\u003eSouthwest Review\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLife\u003c\/i\u003e magazine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.46 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 1963\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45308678242406,"sku":"9780292741157","price":44.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/bS9ZRTZEU2t5RjVyc2ZpUmpQUE9HUT09.webp?v=1774187427","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/gay-as-a-grig-memories-of-a-north-texas-girlhood-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}