{"product_id":"nobody-rich-or-famous-richard-shelton-9780816533992","title":"Nobody Rich or Famous: A Family Memoir","description":"Once in a while, a book comes along that redefines the concept of family. Frank McCourt did it with \u003ci\u003eAngela's Ashes\u003c\/i\u003e; Annie Dillard did it with \u003ci\u003eAn American Childhood\u003c\/i\u003e. In \u003ci\u003eNobody Rich or Famous\u003c\/i\u003e, author Richard Shelton (b. 1933) immerses us in the hardscrabble lives of his Boise, Idaho, clan during the 1930s and '40s. Using a framework of journals, road trips, and artful storytelling, Shelton traces three generations of women. We meet his mother, Hazel, a model of western respectability, who carefully dresses in her finest clothes before walking into a bar and emptying a loaded handgun in the general direction of her husband. We meet his great-grandmother, Josephine, who homesteads a sod shanty and dies too young on the Kansas prairie. We follow his grandmother, Charlotte, as she grows from a live-in servant girl to a fiddle-playing schoolteacher who burns through two marriages before taking up with the iceman. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Known for his storytelling, Shelton crafts a tale of poverty and its attendant sorrows: alcoholism, neglect, and abuse. But the tenacity of the human spirit shines through. This is an epic tale of Steinbeckian proportions, but it is not fiction. This is memoir in its finest tradition, illuminating today's cultural chasm between the \u003ci\u003ehaves \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ehave-nots\u003c\/i\u003e. In the author's words, \u003ci\u003eNobody Rich or Famous\u003c\/i\u003e is \"the story of a family and how it got that way.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Shelton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816533997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816533992\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Arizona Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/18\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2016 pg. 31\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/11\/2016","brand":"Richard Shelton","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44072817066239,"sku":"9780816533992","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0c090304-a47d-4f96-893e-4d1afed66c44.jpg?v=1685444100","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/nobody-rich-or-famous-richard-shelton-9780816533992","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}