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Upper Bohemia : a memoir / Hayden Herrera.

Van Pelt Library CT274.P527 H47 2021
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Herrera, Hayden, author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Herrera, Hayden--Family.
Herrera, Hayden.
Phillips family.
Bohemianism--United States--Biography.
Bohemianism.
Bohemianism--United States--History--20th century.
Upper class women--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
Upper class women.
Upper class women--Massachusetts--Cape Cod--Biography.
Americans--Mexico--Biography.
Americans.
Artists--Family relationships--United States.
Artists.
Artists--Family relationships.
Children of divorced parents.
History.
Families.
United States.
Children of divorced parents--United States--Biography.
Coming of age.
Massachusetts--Cape Cod.
Mexico.
New York (State)--New York.
Genre:
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
History.
Physical Description:
xix, 248 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Edition:
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Place of Publication:
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2021.
Summary:
"A coming-of-age memoir by the daughter of privileged, artistic, hard-drinking, bohemian parents, set against a backdrop of 1950s New York, Cape Cod, and Mexico"-- Provided by publisher.
Herrera's parents each married five times; when she was three years old her parents separated and she and her sister moved from Cape Cod to New York City to live with their mother and their new hard-drinking stepfather. They saw their father only during summers on the Cape, when they and the other neighborhood children would be left to their own devices by parents who were busy painting, writing, or composing music. This was "upper bohemia," a milieu of people born to privilege who chose to focus on the life of the mind. Here she captures the tension between a child's excitement at every new thing and her sadness at losing the comfort of a reliable family. -- adapted from jacket
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1. The Big House
2. Friends
3. Turkey Farm
4. Divorce
5. Manhattan
6. Mountain Climber
7. Scary
8. Granny Blair
9. Birthday Parties
10. Thoughts
11. The City
12. Cornwall
13. Dasya
14. Mougouch
15. Hickory Ridge
16. Toads
17. TheManheims
18. Gaga
19. Naked
20. Coche de Mama
21. Mexico
22. Coyoacan
23. Cuernavaca
24. Outings
25. Parque Melchor Ocampo
26. With Family
27. Without Blair
28. Esquela Pan Americana
29. Betrayal
30. Myrtle Street
31. Edward Norman
32. Beach Glass.
Other Format:
Online version: Hererra, Hayden, Upper Bohemia
ISBN:
9781982105280
1982105283
OCLC:
1110672644

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