Sarah Smarsh – författare & böcker

Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth

AvSarah Smarsh

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

234 kr

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She Come By It Natural

Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs

AvSarah Smarsh

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

113 kr

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLEThe world can't seem to get enough of Dolly Parton. Her image is blazoned across T-shirts, she burns on desks as blasphemous candles, and well into her seventies she continues to grace awards stages, arenas and talk shows where women of a certain age are rarely seen.Yet not so long ago, Dolly was best known by many people as the punch line of a boob joke. So, what happened?In this affectionate, sharply insightful book, Sarah Smarsh charts Dolly's meteoric rise against the backdrop of her working-class roots. Drawing on her own experience growing up in rural Kansas, Smarsh crafts a resonant portrait of Parton's cultural importance, above all for the often-unheard women who populate her songs: struggling mothers, pregnant teenagers, diner waitresses with deadbeat boyfriends. Candid, intimate and searching, She Come By It Natural captures the enduring appeal of this singular star.

It Happened in Kansas

Remarkable Events That Shaped History

AvSarah Smarsh

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

205 kr

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It Happened in Kansas features over 25 chapters in Kansas history. Lively and entertaining, this book brings the varied and fascinating history of the Sunflower State to life.

Outlaw Tales of Kansas

True Stories Of The Sunflower State's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, And Cutthroats

AvSarah Smarsh

E-bok

Engelska, 2010

665 kr

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A refreshing new perspective on some of the most infamous reprobates of the Midwest.

Outlaw Tales of Kansas

True Stories of the Sunflower State's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, and Cutthroats

AvSarah Smarsh

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

226 kr

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From Dodge City to Abilene and beyond, Kansas in its early years was one fine place for outlaws, and one of the most violent places in America's history. Consider the exploits of Jesse James—a sociopathic killer or a Robin Hood who redistributed Union wealth? Or those of Big Nose Kate, whose true identity was much nobler than her reputation as Doc Holliday's longtime companion. That's not to mention the dangerous inmate who became the learned Bird Man of Kansas—a renowned canary expert whose life story became a hit film. All this and more is yours for the reading in Outlaw Tales of Kansas, which introduces fifteen of the most dramatic events, and the most daring and despicable desperados, in the history of the Sunflower State.

Outlaw Tales of Kansas

True Stories Of The Sunflower State's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, And Cutthroats

AvSarah Smarsh

E-bok

Engelska, 2016

762 kr

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From Dodge City to Abilene and beyond, Kansas in its early years was one fine place for outlaws, and one of the most violent places in America’s history. Consider the exploits of Jesse James—a sociopathic killer or a Robin Hood who redistributed Union wealth? Or those of Big Nose Kate, whose true identity was much nobler than her reputation as Doc Holliday’s longtime companion. That’s not to mention the dangerous inmate who became the learned Bird Man of Kansas—a renowned canary expert whose life story became a hit film.

All this and more is yours for the reading in Outlaw Tales of Kansas, which introduces fifteen of the most dramatic events, and the most daring and despicable desperados, in the history of the Sunflower State.

Heartland

A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth

AvSarah Smarsh

E-bok

Engelska, 2018

177 kr

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*Finalist for the National Book Award* *Finalist for the Kirkus Prize* *Instant New York Times Bestseller* *Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, New York Post, BuzzFeed, Shelf Awareness, Bustle, and Publishers Weekly* An essential read for our times: an eye-opening memoir of working-class poverty in America that will deepen our understanding of the ways in which class shapes our country and “a deeply humane memoir that crackles with clarifying insight”.*Sarah Smarsh was born a fifth generation Kansas wheat farmer on her paternal side, and the product of generations of teen mothers on her maternal side. Through her experiences growing up on a farm thirty miles west of Wichita, we are given a unique and essential look into the lives of poor and working class Americans living in the heartland. During Sarah’s turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, she enjoyed the freedom of a country childhood, but observed the painful challenges of the poverty around her; untreated medical conditions for lack of insurance or consistent care, unsafe job conditions, abusive relationships, and limited resources and information that would provide for the upward mobility that is the American Dream. By telling the story of her life and the lives of the people she loves with clarity and precision but without judgement, Smarsh challenges us to look more closely at the class divide in our country. Beautifully written, in a distinctive voice, Heartland combines personal narrative with powerful analysis and cultural commentary, challenging the myths about people thought to be less because they earn less. “Heartland is one of a growing number of important works—including Matthew Desmond’s Evicted and Amy Goldstein’s Janesville—that together merit their own section in nonfiction aisles across the country: America’s postindustrial decline...Smarsh shows how the false promise of the ‘American dream’ was used to subjugate the poor. It’s a powerful mantra” *(The New York Times Book Review).

Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class

AvSarah Smarsh

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

348 kr

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Bone of the Bone

Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class

AvSarah Smarsh

E-bok

Engelska, 2024

164 kr

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“A must-read for today’s politics” (San Francisco Chronicle), the brilliant and provocative essays that established National Book Award finalist Sarah Smarsh as one of the most important commentators on America’s class problem are collected in one searing and insightful volume.In Bone of the Bone, Sarah Smarsh brings her graceful storytelling and incisive critique to the challenges that define our times—class division, political fissures, gender inequality, environmental crisis, media bias, the rural-urban gulf. Smarsh, a journalist who grew up on a wheat farm in Kansas and was the first in her family to graduate from college, has long focused on cultural dissonance that many in her industry neglected until recently. Now, this thought-provoking collection of more than thirty of her highly relevant, previously published essays from the past decade (2013–2024)—ranging from personal narratives to news commentary—demonstrates a life and a career steeped in the issues that affect our collective future. “A compassionate look at working-class poverty in America” (Time), Bone of the Bone is a singular work covering one of the most tumultuous decades in civic life. Timely, filled with perspective-shifting observations, and a pleasure to read, Sarah Smarsh’s essays—on topics as varied as the socioeconomic significance of dentistry, laws criminalizing poverty, fallacies of the “red vs. blue” political framework, working as a Hooters Girl, and much more—are an important addition to any discussion on contemporary America.

Bone of the Bone

Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class

AvSarah Smarsh

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

218 kr

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She Come By It Natural

Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs

AvSarah Smarsh

Ljudbok

Engelska, 2020

256 kr

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In this Time Top 100 Book of the Year, the National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Heartland “analyzes how Dolly Parton’s songs—and success—have embodied feminism for working-class women” (People). Growing up amid Kansas wheat fields and airplane factories, Sarah Smarsh witnessed firsthand the particular vulnerabilities—and strengths—of women in working poverty. Meanwhile, country songs by female artists played in the background, telling powerful stories about life, men, hard times, and surviving. In her family, she writes, “country music was foremost a language among women. It’s how we talked to each other in a place where feelings aren’t discussed.” And no one provided that language better than Dolly Parton. In this “tribute to the woman who continues to demonstrate that feminism comes in coats of many colors,” Smarsh tells readers how Parton’s songs have validated women who go unheard: the poor woman, the pregnant teenager, the struggling mother disparaged as “trailer trash.” Parton’s broader career—from singing on the front porch of her family’s cabin in the Great Smoky Mountains to achieving stardom in Nashville and Hollywood, from “girl singer” managed by powerful men to self-made mogul of business and philanthropy—offers a springboard to examining the intersections of gender, class, and culture. Infused with Smarsh’s trademark insight, intelligence, and humanity, this is “an ambitious book” (The New Republic) about the icon Dolly Parton and an “in-depth examination into gender and class and what it means to be a woman and a working-class hero that feels particularly important right now” (Refinery29).

Bone of the Bone

Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class

AvSarah Smarsh

Ljudbok

Engelska, 2024

383 kr

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“A must-read for today’s politics” (San Francisco Chronicle), the brilliant and provocative essays that established National Book Award finalist Sarah Smarsh as one of the most important commentators on America’s class problem are collected in one searing and insightful volume.In Bone of the Bone, Sarah Smarsh brings her graceful storytelling and incisive critique to the challenges that define our times—class division, political fissures, gender inequality, environmental crisis, media bias, the rural-urban gulf. Smarsh, a journalist who grew up on a wheat farm in Kansas and was the first in her family to graduate from college, has long focused on cultural dissonance that many in her industry neglected until recently. Now, this thought-provoking collection of more than thirty of her highly relevant, previously published essays from the past decade (2013–2024)—ranging from personal narratives to news commentary—demonstrates a life and a career steeped in the issues that affect our collective future. “A compassionate look at working-class poverty in America” (Time), Bone of the Bone is a singular work covering one of the most tumultuous decades in civic life. Timely, filled with perspective-shifting observations, and a pleasure to read, Sarah Smarsh’s essays—on topics as varied as the socioeconomic significance of dentistry, laws criminalizing poverty, fallacies of the “red vs. blue” political framework, working as a Hooters Girl, and much more—are an important addition to any discussion on contemporary America.

She Come by It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs

AvSarah Smarsh

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

252 kr

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She Come By It Natural

Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs

AvSarah Smarsh

E-bok

Engelska, 2020

177 kr

Läs direkt efter köp

In this Time Top 100 Book of the Year, the National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Heartland “analyzes how Dolly Parton’s songs—and success—have embodied feminism for working-class women” (People). Growing up amid Kansas wheat fields and airplane factories, Sarah Smarsh witnessed firsthand the particular vulnerabilities—and strengths—of women in working poverty. Meanwhile, country songs by female artists played in the background, telling powerful stories about life, men, hard times, and surviving. In her family, she writes, “country music was foremost a language among women. It’s how we talked to each other in a place where feelings aren’t discussed.” And no one provided that language better than Dolly Parton. In this “tribute to the woman who continues to demonstrate that feminism comes in coats of many colors,” Smarsh tells readers how Parton’s songs have validated women who go unheard: the poor woman, the pregnant teenager, the struggling mother disparaged as “trailer trash.” Parton’s broader career—from singing on the front porch of her family’s cabin in the Great Smoky Mountains to achieving stardom in Nashville and Hollywood, from “girl singer” managed by powerful men to self-made mogul of business and philanthropy—offers a springboard to examining the intersections of gender, class, and culture. Infused with Smarsh’s trademark insight, intelligence, and humanity, this is “an ambitious book” (The New Republic) about the icon Dolly Parton and an “in-depth examination into gender and class and what it means to be a woman and a working-class hero that feels particularly important right now” (Refinery29).

Dolly Parton och kvinnorna som levde hennes låtar

AvSarah Smarsh

Inbunden, Svenska, 2021

(1)

219 kr

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"--- en superintressant analytisk bok om countrystjärnan---"Jan Gradvall, DI

"Klarsynt och underhållande om fenomenet Dolly Parton"Kenneth Gysing, Femina

"Biografin om Dolly Parton något utöver det vanliga"Fokus

Genom låtar som ”Jolene” och ”9 to 5” har Dolly Partons i årtionden synliggjort kvinnor som sällan hörs: vita arbetarklasskvinnor i den amerikanska södern. Partons karriär är en osannolik resa från akut fattigdom i Tennessee, i huset hon växte upp saknades el och hade utedass på gården, till stjärnstatus i Nashville och Hollywood. Hon är en av världens mest produktiva låtskrivare, hon har skrivit över 3000 låtar, har haft 25 Billboardettor och vunnit tio Grammys. Hon är flerfaldigt Oscarsnominerad, driver nöjesparken Dollywood i sin hemstat och är en viktig filantrop. I Dolly Parton och kvinnorna som levde hennes låtar utforskar Sarah Smarsh Partons kulturella inflytande. Parton tog tidigt kontroll över bilden av sig själv och sin karriär. Hon spelade medvetet på bilden som sexsymbol, och lyfte fram en mer handfast sorts kvinnokamp grundad i fattiga kvinnors levnadsvillkor, långt från universiteten och politiken.

Dolly Parton och kvinnorna som levde hennes låtar

AvSarah Smarsh

E-bok

Svenska, 2021

169 kr

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"--- en superintressant analytisk bok om countrystjärnan---"Jan Gradvall, DI

"Klarsynt och underhållande om fenomenet Dolly Parton"Kenneth Gysing, Femina

"Biografin om Dolly Parton något utöver det vanliga"Fokus

Genom låtar som ”Jolene” och ”9 to 5” har Dolly Partons i årtionden synliggjort kvinnor som sällan hörs: vita arbetarklasskvinnor i den amerikanska södern. Partons karriär är en osannolik resa från akut fattigdom i Tennessee, i huset hon växte upp saknades el och hade utedass på gården, till stjärnstatus i Nashville och Hollywood. Hon är en av världens mest produktiva låtskrivare, hon har skrivit över 3000 låtar, har haft 25 Billboardettor och vunnit tio Grammys. Hon är flerfaldigt Oscarsnominerad, driver nöjesparken Dollywood i sin hemstat och är en viktig filantrop. I Dolly Parton och kvinnorna som levde hennes låtar utforskar Sarah Smarsh Partons kulturella inflytande. Parton tog tidigt kontroll över bilden av sig själv och sin karriär. Hon spelade medvetet på bilden som sexsymbol, och lyfte fram en mer handfast sorts kvinnokamp grundad i fattiga kvinnors levnadsvillkor, långt från universiteten och politiken.

Dolly Parton och kvinnorna som levde hennes låtar

AvSarah Smarsh

Ljudbok

Svenska, 2021

(5)

169 kr

Lyssna direkt efter köp

"--- en superintressant analytisk bok om countrystjärnan---"Jan Gradvall, DI

"Klarsynt och underhållande om fenomenet Dolly Parton"Kenneth Gysing, Femina

"Biografin om Dolly Parton något utöver det vanliga"Fokus

Genom låtar som ”Jolene” och ”9 to 5” har Dolly Partons i årtionden synliggjort kvinnor som sällan hörs: vita arbetarklasskvinnor i den amerikanska södern. Partons karriär är en osannolik resa från akut fattigdom i Tennessee, i huset hon växte upp saknades el och hade utedass på gården, till stjärnstatus i Nashville och Hollywood. Hon är en av världens mest produktiva låtskrivare, hon har skrivit över 3000 låtar, har haft 25 Billboardettor och vunnit tio Grammys. Hon är flerfaldigt Oscarsnominerad, driver nöjesparken Dollywood i sin hemstat och är en viktig filantrop. I Dolly Parton och kvinnorna som levde hennes låtar utforskar Sarah Smarsh Partons kulturella inflytande. Parton tog tidigt kontroll över bilden av sig själv och sin karriär. Hon spelade medvetet på bilden som sexsymbol, och lyfte fram en mer handfast sorts kvinnokamp grundad i fattiga kvinnors levnadsvillkor, långt från universiteten och politiken.

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Sarah Smarsh – författare

Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth

She Come By It Natural

It Happened in Kansas

Outlaw Tales of Kansas

Outlaw Tales of Kansas

Outlaw Tales of Kansas

Heartland

Bone of the Bone: Essays on America by a Daughter of the Working Class

Bone of the Bone

Bone of the Bone

She Come By It Natural

Bone of the Bone

She Come by It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs

She Come By It Natural

Dolly Parton och kvinnorna som levde hennes låtar

Dolly Parton och kvinnorna som levde hennes låtar

Dolly Parton och kvinnorna som levde hennes låtar

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