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Lifesaving : a memoir / Judith Barrington.
Van Pelt Library PS3552.A73647 Z466 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barrington, Judith
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Barrington, Judith.
- Parents--Death--Psychological aspects.
- Parents.
- Poets, American--20th century--Biography.
- Poets, American.
- Lesbians.
- Spain.
- Poets, English--20th century--Biography.
- Poets, English.
- Lesbians--Spain--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Local author.
- Oregon authors.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 186 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Portland, Or. : Eighth Mountain Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- A memoir by an English poet recalls the three years that followed her parents's death in a cruise ship fire, in which she fled to a small town in northern Spain, where she began to find and accept herself.
- Contents:
- Umbilical
- No Escape
- The Road to Perelada
- The Initiation
- Paco's Mother
- Senor Serra's Romance
- Exhalations
- Dream Time
- Sleeping Around
- El Cordobes
- The Rain in Spain
- Making Waves
- Stones
- Lifesaving.
- Notes:
- Lambda Literary Awards - Lesbian Biography/Autobiography, Winner, 2001
- Other Format:
- Online version: Barrington, Judith. Lifesaving.
- ISBN:
- 0933377444
- 9780933377448
- 0933377452
- 9780933377455
- OCLC:
- 42397612
- Online:
- Publisher description
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