How I Got Cultured: A Nevada Memoir (Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction Ser.)

By Phyllis Barber

Book Overview

Phyllis Barber grew up in Las Vegas, in the midst of a devout Mormon family. As a small child, she began to feel uneasy with her faith's all-pervasive certainty and righteousness. As she grew, the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820314137
• ISBN13: 9780820314136
• Release Date: July 1992
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 189 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.8" x 5.9"

Customer Reviews

An excellent insight on the youth of a orthodox mormon girl

Phyllis Barber allows the reader to gain a intimate view of the clash between values of 1950's Las Vegas and her family's vallues of Mormonism. Barber struggles to use her talent of rhythm in a city celebrated for the excesses of entertainment versus her family's definition of proper use of talent within the confines of her Mormon culture. Barber uses the symbolism of marriage to both worlds to best explain the dilemna she is in. To Bobby Jack ( a current boyfriend) marriage meant a wheezing minister, ye