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About My Mother : True Stories of a Horse-Crazy Daughter and Her Baseball-Obsessed Mother: a Memoir by Peggy Rowe (2018, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherForefront Books

ISBN-101948677164

ISBN-139781948677165

eBay Product ID (ePID)4038403078

Product Key Features

Book TitleAbout My Mother : True Stories of a Horse-Crazy Daughter and Her Baseball-Obsessed Mother: a Memoir

Number of Pages192 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2018

TopicWomen, Rich & Famous, Baseball / General, Personal Memoirs, Parenting / Motherhood, Form / Essays

IllustratorYes

GenreFamily & Relationships, Sports & Recreation, Biography & Autobiography, Humor

AuthorPeggy Rowe

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight12.9 Oz

Item Length8.4 in

Item Width5.4 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

SynopsisA Message from Mike Rowe, the Dirty Jobs Guy: Just to be clear, About My Mother is a book about my grandmother, written by my mother. That's not to say it's not about my mother--it is. In fact, About My Mother is as much about my mother as it is about my grandmother. In that sense, it's really a book about "mothers." ...It is not, however, a book written by me. True, I did write the foreword. But it doesn't mean I've written a book about my mother. I haven't. Nor does it mean my mother's book is about her son. It isn't. It's about my grandmother. And my mother. Just to be clear.--Mike A love letter to mothers everywhere, About My Mother will make you laugh and cry--and see yourself in its reflection. Peggy Rowe's story of growing up as the daughter of Thelma Knobel is filled with warmth and humor. But Thelma could be your mother--there's a Thelma in everyone's life. She's the person taking charge--the one who knows instinctively how things should be. Today, Thelma would be described as an alpha personality, but while growing up, her daughter Peggy saw her as a dictator--albeit a benevolent, loving one. They clashed from the beginning--Peggy, the horse-crazy tomboy, and Thelma, the genteel-yet-still-controlling mother, committed to raising two refined, ladylike daughters. Good luck. When major league baseball came to town in the early 1950s and turned sophisticated Thelma into a crazed Baltimore Orioles groupie, nobody was more surprised and embarrassed than Peggy. Life became a series of compromises--Thelma tolerating a daughter who pitched manure and galloped the countryside, while Peggy learned to tolerate the whacky Orioles fan who threw her underwear at the television, shouted insults at umpires, and lived by the orange-and-black schedule taped to the refrigerator door. Sometimes it takes a little distance to appreciate the people we love.