Conversation About Happiness

The Story of a Lost Childhood

AvMikey Cuddihy

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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When Mikey Cuddihy was orphaned at the age of nine, her life exploded. She and her siblings were sent from New York to board at experimental Summerhill School, in Suffolk, and abandoned there. The setting was idyllic, lessons were optional, pupils made the rules. Joan Baez visited and taught Mikey guitar. The late sixties were in full swing, but with total freedom came danger. Mikey navigated this strange world of permissiveness and neglect, forging an identity almost in defiance of it. A Conversation About Happiness is a vivid and intense memoir of coming of age amidst the unravelling social experiment of sixties and seventies Britain.

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Utgivningsdatum:2015-05-07
Mått:129 x 198 x 19 mm
Vikt:254 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Atlantic Books
ISBN:9781782393160

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Born in New York, Mikey Cuddihy was educated at Summerhill School in Suffolk. She later studied fine art at Edinburgh College of Art and Chelsea School of Art. An art lecturer at the University of Brighton, Mikey is an acclaimed artist and writer.

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A Conversation about Happiness is unsparing in its emotional openness, generosity, and tolerance of ambiguity. It is a compelling combination of fairy tale and investigative journalism in which no one appears to have done anything wrong, and yet nothing is quite right.