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How I Got Cultured: A Nevada Memoir

Phyllis Barber grew up in Las Vegas, in the midst of a devout Mormon family. As a small child, she began to feel uneasy with her faith's all-pervasive certainty and righteousness. As she grew, the tensions between her religious beliefs and her desire for a larger, more cultured life also grew. She studied piano and dance, performed with a high school precision dance team, worked as an accompanist in a ballet studio and as a model.How I Got Cultured is a moving, candid, and sometimes hilarious account of an American adolescence, negotiated between the strictures of a demanding faith and the allures of one of the most flamboyant cities in the world.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 216
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780874172331
  • Genres
  • memoir, mormonism, lds
  • Release date
  • 1994