Summary
Though her grammar may have remained in Butcher Holler, Kentucky, Loretta Lynn has had enough experiences since she left her childhood home in 1948 for multiple volumes of autobiography. STILL WOMAN ENOUGH fills in many of the gaps left by its predecessor, COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER. Writing after the death of Oliver "Doolittle" Lynn, with whom she had a famously tumultuous marriage that spanned nearly 50 years, Lynn reveals many harrowing episodes from their relationship, including her husband's violence, alcoholism, and womanizing. Her inimitable, matter-of-fact, homespun voice, superbly rendered in prose by her co-author Patsi Bale Cox, gives the classic reason for staying: she loved him, despite it all. Lynn's life hasn't been all heartache-she's had considerable success with her music and underwent a career revival in the early 21st century with an album produced by the White Stripes' Jack White. A born survivor, she tells her tales of heartbreak and loss with a kind of buoyant, often witty fatalism that owes much to the stoicism and pride of her hillbilly roots and everything to an unbreakable spirit.
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Thorndike Pr
Published date: 2002
Size: 5.75 x 8.75 inches
Weight: 1.3 pounds
Pages: 388
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