The rules do not apply : a memoir / Ariel Levy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levy, Ariel, 1974- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Levy, Ariel, 1974-.

Levy, Ariel.

Levy, Ariel, 1974---Marriage.

Women journalists--United States--Biography.

Women journalists.

Miscarriage.

Young women.

Marriage.

United States.

Young women--United States--Biography.

Miscarriage--United States.

Lesbians--United States--Biography.

Lesbians.

Sex role--United States.

Sex role.

Life change events--United States.

Life change events.

Local Subjects:

Young women--United States--Biography.

Sex role--United States.

Life change events--United States.

Lesbians--United States--Biography.

Women journalists--United States--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xi, 207 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Random House, [2017]

Summary:

"A gorgeous, darkly humorous memoir for readers of Cheryl Strayed about a woman overcoming dramatic loss and finding reinvention, as well as a portrait of a generation used to assuming they're entitled to everything--based on this award-winning writer's New Yorker article 'Thanksgiving in Mongolia'"-- Provided by publisher.

"In 2012, at age 38, when she left on a reporting trip to Mongolia, Ariel Levy thought she had figured it out: she was married, pregnant, successful on her own terms, financially secure. A month later, none of that was true. 'People have been telling me since I was a little girl that I was too fervent, too forceful, too much. I thought I had harnessed the power of my own strength and greed and love to a life that could contain it. But it has exploded.' In gorgeous, moving, humorous, sharp, and unforgettable prose, with pointillist portraits of a girl and then a young woman coming of age, Levy describes her own ill-fated assumptions: thinking that anything is possible, that the old rules do not apply; that marriage doesn't have to mean monogamy; that gender and sexuality are fluid; that aging doesn't have to mean infertility. This is a searing story, written with humor, brilliance, and insight, that is at once personal and universal--a story about realizing that life is so often beyond our control, and how we forge ahead despite that. In telling her own story, Levy has captured a portrait of our time, of the shifting forces in values, women and gender in American culture, of what has changed and what has remained"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780812996937

0812996933

OCLC:

959952321