Download or read book The Bookmaker's Daughter written by Shirley Abbott and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2006-03-30 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richly detailed with family anecdotes, feminist insight, history, sociology, and Southern mythology, this memoir chronicles Abbott's volatile relationship with her father, a bookie at an illegal gambling house. "A moving attempt to understand . . . how a bitter failure of a man was also the father of a real maker of books".--Valerie Sayers, New York Times Book Review.