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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816067003321

Autore

Jamison Dirk

Titolo

Perishable : a memoir / / Dirk Jamison

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, Ill., : Chicago Review Press, c2006

ISBN

1-55652-689-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (223 p.)

Disciplina

979.4/94

B

Soggetti

Children of unemployed parents - California

Children of unemployed parents - Oregon

Mormons - California

Mormons - Oregon

California Biography

Oregon Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Part One: Huntington Beach, California, 1973; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Part Two: Mammoth Lakes, California, 1975; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Chapter 12; Chapter 13; Chapter 14; Part Three: La Grande, Oregon, 1977; Chapter 15; Chapter 16; Chapter 17; Chapter 18; Chapter 19; Chapter 20; Chapter 21; Chapter 22; Chapter 23; Chapter 24; Chapter 25; Epilogue

Sommario/riassunto

Fascinatingly disturbing, this memoir chronicles seven years in the life of a distinctly unordinary American family. In 1973, Dirk Jamison's father started having a midlife crisis that never ended, and after purposefully losing his construction job, he moved his family to a ski resort and started feeding them from dumpsters in an effort to reject money and all its trappings. They were never homeless, never desperately poor, but they lived on garbage. While Jamison struggled with adolescence, he faced a father who valued freedom more than anything, an overweight Mormon mother, and a cruel