American Lives

A Reader

AvAlicia Christensen

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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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. In prose as diverse as the stories they tell, writers such as Floyd Skloot, Ted Kooser, Peggy Shumaker, and Lee Martin, among many others, open windows to their own ordinary and extraordinary experiences. John Skoyles tells how, for his Uncle Fred, a particular "Hard Luck Suit" imparted misfortune. Brenda Serotte describes a Turkish grandmother who made her living reading palms, interpreting cups, and prescribing poultices for the community. In "Son of Mr. Green Jeans," Dinty W. Moore views fatherhood through the lens of pop culture. Janet Sternburg's Phantom Limb muses on the dilemmas of a child caring for a parent. Whether evoking moments of death or disease, in family or marriage, history, politics, religion, or culture, these glimpses into singular American lives come together in a richly textured, colorful patchwork quilt of American life.

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Utgivningsdatum:2010-03-01
Mått:140 x 216 x 18 mm
Vikt:386 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:American Lives
Antal sidor:326
Förlag:University of Nebraska Press
ISBN:9780803228054

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Alicia Christensen is the Bison Books editor at the University of Nebraska Press. Tobias Wolff is the author of numerous books, including the memoirs This Boy's Life and In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War; the novel Old School; and, most recently, Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories. Contributors: Laurie Alberts, Marvin V. Arnett, Charles Barber, Mary Felstiner, Eli Hastings, Sonya Huber, Jonathan Johnson, Ted Kooser, Dinah Lenney, Aaron Raz Link, Lee Martin, Dinty W. Moore, Hilda Raz, Mimi Schwartz, Brenda Serotte, Fan Shen, Peggy Shumaker, Natalia Rachel Singer, Floyd Skloot, John Skoyles, and Janet Sternburg.

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"You will see [the] quality of recognizable humanity glittering throughout the memoirs from which this book was drawn. . . . These writers are intensely interested in what lies beyond them—how the world at large acts, and acts on them, and, finally, hesitantly, how they themselves have acted upon the world. This is, after all, history—history from the inside out."—from Tobias Wolff's introduction

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceIntroduction"Long Live the Red Terror!"Fan ShenMoving Water, TucsonPeggy ShumakerWinter 1997Laurie AlbertsThe Weight of SpoonsCharles BarberHard Luck SuitJohn SkoylesFortunaBrenda SerotteThe Boys of SummerMarvin V. ArnettExcerpt from "Winter"Ted KooserSon of Mr. Green Jeans: A Meditation on Missing FathersDinty W. MooreGood, Alright, FineEli HastingsActingDinah LenneyAnd There Fell a Great StarNatalia Rachel SingerNot Coming OutAaron Raz Link and Hilda RazExcerpt from Phantom LimbJanet SternburgAlternatives, 1979Mary FelstinerExcerpt from "The Second Trimester"Jonathan JohnsonA Measure of AcceptanceFloyd SklootThe New KitchenMimi SchwartzOne I Love, Two I LoveLee MartinExcerpt from "The Promise of Power"Sonya HuberSource AcknowledgmentsList of Contributors