02639nam 2200589Ia 450 991045656440332120200520144314.01-282-55584-797866125558480-8032-3483-X(CKB)2520000000007691(EBL)496570(OCoLC)609859494(SSID)ssj0000356555(PQKBManifestationID)11269736(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000356555(PQKBWorkID)10350284(PQKB)11276376(MiAaPQ)EBC496570(MdBmJHUP)muse3694(Au-PeEL)EBL496570(CaPaEBR)ebr10370429(CaONFJC)MIL255584(EXLCZ)99252000000000769120090804d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAmerican lives[electronic resource] a reader /edited by Alicia Christensen; introduction by Tobias WolffLincoln University of Nebraska Press20101 online resource (327 p.)American lives series"Bison books"--Prelim. p.0-8032-2805-8 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; ContributorsMemoirs 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.American lives.AutobiographiesUnited StatesUnited StatesBiographyElectronic books.Autobiographies920.02Christensen Alicia1978-962751MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456564403321American lives2183016UNINA