It wasn't all dancing, and other stories
By: Mary Ward Brown.
Series: Deep South books
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 142
Subjects: Southern States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "All but one of the stories are set in Alabama. They deal with dramatic turning points in the lives of people who happen to be southerners, many juxtaposed between Old South sensibility and manners and New South modernity and expectations.

Among these characters is a new widow uncomforted by well-meaning, proselytizing Christians; a middle-aged waitress in love with the town "catch"; a bedridden belle dependent upon her black nurse; a "special" young man in a newspaper shop; a young faculty wife who attempts generosity with a lower-class neighbor; and a lawyer caught in the dilemma of race issues."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: It wasn't all dancing; title: Once in a lifetime; title: A new life; title: No sound in the night; title: The birthday cake; title: Swing low : a memoir; title: Alone in a foreign country; title: The house that Asa built; title: The parlor tumblers; title: A good heart; title: A meeting on the road.