The Last Of The Honky Tonk Angels

One morning in tiny Mooney, Texas, a red Chrysler deposits a teenage girl on the doorstep of Lucy Hatch and her live-in beau Ash Farrell. For Ash, town carpenter and musician, the unheralded arrival of his daughter, Denise--whom he hasn't seen in nearly eight years--is a life-altering shock. It's a surprise for Lucy too, complicating her relationship with Ash, now that she's pregnant with his child. Angry, rebellious, uncertain, Denny must live in a town tinier than any that has imprisoned her before. But when she picks up Ash's guitar, they are bonded by his music. In its haunting strains and emotions is hope they can be a family. But an ugly incident divides both the town and the emerging Hatch-Farrell household--raising specters of suspicion, hatred, and intolerance.

A collective biography of the women who shaped early country and western music

Earthy, sexy, and vivacious, the life of beloved country singer, Patsy Cline, who soared from obscurity to international fame to tragic death in just thirty short years, is explored in colorful and poignant detail. An innovator?and even a hell-raiser?Cline broke all the boys' club barriers of Nashville's music business in the 1950s and brought a new Nashville sound to the nation with her pop hits and torch ballads like ?Walking After Midnight," ?I Fall to Pieces? and "Crazy." She is the subject of a major Hollywood movie and countless articles, and her albums are still selling 45 years after her death. Ellis Nassour was the very first to write about Cline and did so with the cooperation of the stars who knew and loved her?including Jimmy Dean, Jan Howard, Brenda Lee, Loretta Lynn, Roger Miller, Dottie West, and Faron Young. He was the only writer to interview Cline's mother and husbands. This updated edition features not only a complete discography and a host of never-before-published photographs, but includes an afterword that details controversial claims about her birth, the battle between Cline's siblings for her possessions, the amazing influence Cline had on a new generation of singers and, in Cline's own words from letters to a devoted friend, her excitement as her career soared to new heights and her marriage descended to new depths.

Here is the bestselling, intimate biography of Patsy Cline, the earthy, sexy and vivacious woman who brought the Nashville sound to the rest of the nation. Honky Tonk Angel offers an intimate detailing of the legendary singer's colorful and poignant life and tragic death. Photos. Martin's.

Based on a rich set of historical data, this book traces the development of pragmatic markers in English, from hw't in Old English and whilom in Middle English to whatever and I'm just saying in present-day English. Laurel J. Brinton carefully maps the syntactic origins and development of these forms, and critically examines postulated unilineal pathways, such as from adverb to conjunction to discourse marker, or from main clause to parenthetical. The book sets case studies within a larger examination of the development of pragmatic markers as instances of grammaticalization or pragmaticalization. The characteristics of pragmatic markers - as primarily oral, syntactically optional, sentence-external, grammatically indeterminate elements - are revised in the context of scholarship on pragmatic markers over the last thirty or more years.

This book takes readers on a literary ride across the Lone Star State. J. Frank Dobie tells true stories of rattlesnakes and buried treasure, Jodi Thomas finds romance in the oilfields.