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UNINA9910972007203321 |
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Autore |
Strasser Judith <1944-> |
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Titolo |
Black eye : escaping a marriage, writing a life / / Judith Strasser |
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Madison, : University of Wisconsin Press, c2004 |
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9786612269516 |
9781282269514 |
1282269518 |
9780299199333 |
0299199339 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xi, 350 p. ) |
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Soggetti |
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Married people - United States |
Dysfunctional families - United States |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (347-348). |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Unpleasant truths -- Questions of politics -- Intimate strangers -- Losses -- True colors -- Clear vision -- Standards of performance -- Selective attention -- Tokens of love -- Diffidence -- "I Jumped for it" -- Jekyll and Hyde -- Halcyon days -- Cause and effect -- Trouble on its way -- Enormous rage -- The gift. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Seventeen years after she married, Judith Strasser escaped her emotionally and physically abusive husband and sought a better way to live. In the process, Strasser rediscovered what she had suppressed through that long span of time: exceptional strength and a passion for writing. Black Eye includes excerpts from a journal Strasser kept from 1985 to1986, the year she made the decision to leave her marriage, and present-day commentary on the journal passages and her family history. Strasser works like a detective investigating her own life, drawing clarity and power from journal passages, dreams, and memories that originally emerged from confusion and despair. With language that is both insightful and poetic, she reveals the psychological and social circumstances that led a "strong" woman, an intelligent and politically active feminist, to become an emotionally |
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dependent, abused wife. Not coincidentally, the same year that Strasser finally found the courage to leave her husband, she also reclaimed her creative voice. Newly empowered and energized by this enormous life change, Strasser began writing again after twenty-five silent years dominated by her mother's illness and death, her own cancer, and her painful, fearful marriage. Black Eye is one of the fruits of this creative reawakening. Strasser's writing is refreshingly honest and instantly engrossing. Not shy of wretchedness or beauty, Strasser's story is bitterly personal, ultimately triumphant, and inspiring to all who deal with the adversity that is part of human life. |
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