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Just as We Were

A Narrow Slice of Texas Womanhood

By: Prudence Mackintosh

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Just as We Were

A Narrow Slice of Texas Womanhood

By: Prudence Mackintosh

In thirteen essays, the author offers a wry, insider's look at the coming-of-age of blueblooded Texas women as she lived it, from summer camp in the Texas Hill Country to sorority membership to the Junior League. UP.

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188

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University of Texas Press

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ISBN 10

0292752008

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9780292752009

Sneaking Out

By: Prudence Mackintosh

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Sneaking Out

By: Prudence Mackintosh

From the endless battles of sibling rivalry to the endless worries about getting indifferent students into—and then graduated from—college, raising boys is the adventure of a lifetime for any mother. Prudence Mackintosh has not only survived the adventure but has also written about it with her signature wit and style. Her essays about life with sons Jack, Drew, and William have entertained the readers of Texas Monthly and other prominent magazines for nearly three decades, offering solace to similarly beleaguered parents and a knowing chuckle to everyone who enjoys watching the real-life sitcom of a fundamentally happy, intact family. Sneaking Out completes the story that Mackintosh began in her earlier books Thundering Sneakers and Retreads. In this collection of new and previously published essays, she recounts life with her adolescent sons as they race headlong to first jobs, first driver's licenses, first girlfriends, and first flights away from the family nest. She also follows them into the college years, when both parents and sons have to find a new balance in holding on and letting go. Along the way, she offers wise and witty reflections on being a woman at midlife, supporting her sons through the beginning of their adult lives and her parents through the end of theirs.

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0292752342

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9780292752344

Retreads

By: Prudence Mackintosh

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Retreads

By: Prudence Mackintosh

Retreads tells the middle of the story begun in Thundering Sneakers and concluded in Sneaking Out. In this collection of essays, Prudence Mackintosh follows her sons through the "tween" years between little boyhood and adolescence. Vividly portraying the chaos that descends on a house full of active children, she also records the many first times and last times that give poignancy to the middle years of motherhood.

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