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Perishable : a memoir / / Dirk Jamison



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Autore: Jamison Dirk Visualizza persona
Titolo: Perishable : a memoir / / Dirk Jamison Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chicago, Ill., : Chicago Review Press, c2006
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (223 p.)
Disciplina: 979.4/94
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Soggetto topico: Children of unemployed parents - California
Children of unemployed parents - Oregon
Mormons - California
Mormons - Oregon
Soggetto geografico: California Biography
Oregon Biography
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
Titolo autorizzato: Perishable  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-55652-689-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910816067003321
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