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Barefoot Stories: My Extraordinary Ordinary Life by Spacek, Sissy, Vollers, Mary Anne is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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In her delightful and moving memoir, Sissy Spacek writes about her idyllic, barefoot childhood in a small East Texas town, with the clarity and wisdom that comes from never losing sight of her roots. Descended from industrious Czech immigrants and threadbare southern gentility, she grew up a tomboy, tagging along with two older brothers and absorbing grace and grit from her remarkable parents, who taught her that she could do anything. She also learned fearlessness in the wake of a family tragedy, the grief propelling her "like rocket fuel" to follow her dreams of becoming a performer. With a keen sense of humor and a big-hearted voice, she describes how she arrived in New York City one star-struck summer as a seventeen-year-old carrying a suitcase and two guitars; and how she built a career that has spanned four decades with films such as Carrie , Coal Miner’s Daughter , 3 Women , and The Help . She details working with some of the great directors of our time, including Terrence Malick, Robert Altman, David Lynch, and Brian De Palma—who thought of her as a no-talent set decorator until he cast her as the lead in Carrie. She also reveals why, at the height of her fame, she and

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Author

Spacek, Sissy, Vollers, Mary Anne

Publisher

Hyperion Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781620907894

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Sports, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.87 / 5 (908 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14