Incognito Street : how travel made me a writer / Barbara Sjoholm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sjoholm, Barbara, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sjoholm, Barbara, 1950---Travel--Europe.

Sjoholm, Barbara.

Sjoholm, Barbara, 1950---Childhood and youth.

Sjoholm, Barbara, 1950-.

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Americans.

History.

Travel.

Europe.

Americans--Europe--History--20th century.

Authorship.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

326 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Emeryville, CA : Seal Press, [2006]

Summary:

Barbara Sjoholm arrived in London in the winter of 1970 at the age of twenty. Like countless young Americans in that tumultuous time, she wanted to leave a country at war and explore Europe. Over the next three years, she lived in Barcelona, hitchhiked around Spain, and studied at the University of Granada, finding odd jobs to make ends meet. Set on becoming a writer, she read everything from Colette to Dickens to Borges, changing her style and her subject every few weeks, and gradually found her voice. "Incognito Street" is the story of a young woman's search for artistic, political, and sexual identity while digesting the changing world around her. As she sheds the ghosts of her childhood, we come to know her quiet yet adventurous spirit. In moments that are tender, funny, bewildering, and suspenseful, we see an evocative look at Europe through the blossoming writer's maturing eyes.

Contents:

Faith

The vagabond

Mediterráneo

George Sand's cigar

Saffron

Iberia

The garden of forking paths

Bleak house

The looking glass

Incognito Street

A glacier summer

Winter in Granada

al-Andalus

Simultaneous translation

Cante jondo

Ripples from the storm

O pioneers!

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1580051723

OCLC:

67405532

Publisher Number:

9781580051729