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American lives : a reader / edited by Alicia Christensen; introduction by Tobias Wolff.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- American lives.
- American lives series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Autobiographies--United States.
- Autobiographies.
- United States--Biography.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (327 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Memoirs are as varied as human emotion and experience, and those published in the distinguished American Lives Series run the gamut. Excerpted from this series (called "splendid" by Newsweek) and collected here for the first time, these dispatches from American lives take us from China during the Cultural Revolution to the streets of New York in the sixties to a cabin in the backwoods of Idaho.
- Contents:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; "Long Live the Red Terror!"; Moving Water, Tucson; Winter 1997; The Weight of Spoons; Hard Luck Suit; Fortuna; The Boys of Summer; Excerpt from "Winter"; Son of Mr. Green Jeans:A Meditation on Missing Fathers; Good, Alright, Fine; Acting; And There Fell a Great Star; Not Coming Out; Excerpt from Phantom Limb; Alternatives, 1979; Excerpt from "The Second Trimester"; A Measure of Acceptance; The New Kitchen; One I Love, Two I Love; Excerpt from"The Promise of Power"; Source Acknowledgments; Contributors
- Notes:
- "Bison books"--Prelim. p.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-55584-7
- 9786612555848
- 0-8032-3483-X
- OCLC:
- 609859494
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