Speaking with strangers / Mary Cantwell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cantwell, Mary.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Cantwell, Mary.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cantwell, Mary--Travel.

Cantwell, Mary.

Travel.

Voyages and travels.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Cantwell, Mary (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

142 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1998.

Summary:

In Speaking with Strangers Mary Cantwell finds herself alone, a single mother in the big city, bereft of her husband if bolstered by friends, professionally successful if personally sad. She takes to traveling, for "escape", to far regions of the world on magazine assignments. While wandering through Izmir, Belgrade, or Tashkent, she promises herself never to leave her children again if God will just get her out of this latest hellhole. Yet the farther she rambles, the more she finds herself taking on a shape again - by speaking with strangers. She also finds deep, if passing, happiness in an intense relationship with a famous writer she calls "the balding man", and warmth and hilarity in her friendship with the legendarily reclusive - and rambunctious - novelist Frederick Exley. As this fiercely candid memoir ends, she realizes that she has long since "embraced my true bridegroom. That was the day I married New York". And with that realization, this maker of a family and a career comes fully into her own as a writer.

Notes:

"A Peter Davison book"--Jacket.

Sequel to: Manhattan, when I was young.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy signed by the author.

Related Work:

Cantwell, Mary. Manhattan, when I was young.

ISBN:

0395827515

OCLC:

38048291