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Only : a singular memoir / Caroline Baum.
Van Pelt Library PN4877.B386 A3 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baum, Caroline, 1958- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baum, Caroline, 1958---Childhood and youth.
- Baum, Caroline.
- Only child--Biography.
- Only child.
- Journalists--Australia--Biography.
- Journalists.
- Australia.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 372 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2017.
- Summary:
- Caroline Baum's fascinating and moving memoir about being an only child in a very unusual family.
- Three barely felt like a family. It felt like it did not count. Like we were unfinished. Incomplete. There was always a gap at the table, room to set places for others. Visitors were few and far between. Mostly, there was only me...Only is a memoir of an unconventional childhood that explores what it means to be an Only Child - as both child and adult. Also what it means to be the daughter of two people damaged by trauma and tragedy. Caroline Baum's moving and gripping memoir is for all children who've felt they are the fulcrum of a seesaw, the focus of all eyes and expectations, torn between love and fear, obedience and rebellion, duty and the longing to escape. It is also for anyone who has felt the burden of trying to be a Good Daughter - what that means and why it is so hard. Revelatory, lyrical and life-affirming.
- Contents:
- Part 1
- 1 All the cherries 3
- 2 Papa et Maman 22
- 3 The Kennedys and me 37
- 4 A serious child 42
- 5 Second-hand fame 55
- 6 Kindertransport 69
- 7 Return to Vienna 88
- 8 Googling a murder 103
- 9 The dandy 117
- 10 Mother Russia 129
- 11 Vogue-ish 138
- 12 Oxford 147
- 13 An assignment 154
- 14 The Cold War 166
- 15 My father's daughter 184
- 16 Couch potato 197
- 17 Estranged 202
- Part 2
- 18 A dutiful daughter 221
- 19 April 229
- 20 Damaged goods 242
- 21 Cars 255
- 22 The Os and Qs 267
- 23 Scammers 281
- 24 Three women (Part one) 294
- 25 Grief 309
- 26 An unfinished daughter 317
- 27 The unglazed heart 323
- 28 The memory box 328
- 29 Long-distance death 338
- 30 Three women (Part two) 354
- 31 Trio 358.
- Notes:
- Record machine-generated from publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 9781760293970
- 1760293970
- OCLC:
- 965540376
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