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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456564403321

Titolo

American lives [[electronic resource] ] : a reader / / edited by Alicia Christensen; introduction by Tobias Wolff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, 2010

ISBN

1-282-55584-7

9786612555848

0-8032-3483-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (327 p.)

Collana

American lives series

Altri autori (Persone)

ChristensenAlicia <1978->

Disciplina

920.02

Soggetti

Autobiographies - United States

Electronic books.

United States Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Bison books"--Prelim. p.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; "Long Live the Red Terror!"; Moving Water, Tucson; Winter 1997; The Weight of Spoons; Hard Luck Suit; Fortuna; The Boys of Summer; Excerpt from "Winter"; Son of Mr. Green Jeans:A Meditation on Missing Fathers; Good, Alright, Fine; Acting; And There Fell a Great Star; Not Coming Out; Excerpt from Phantom Limb; Alternatives, 1979; Excerpt from "The Second Trimester"; A Measure of Acceptance; The New Kitchen; One I Love, Two I Love; Excerpt from"The Promise of Power"; Source Acknowledgments; Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

Memoirs are as varied as human emotion and experience, and those published in the distinguished American Lives Series run the gamut. Excerpted from this series (called "splendid" by Newsweek) and collected here for the first time, these dispatches from American lives take us from China during the Cultural Revolution to the streets of New York in the sixties to a cabin in the backwoods of Idaho.