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A certain loneliness : a memoir / Sandra Gail Lambert.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lambert, Sandra Gail, author.
- Series:
- American lives.
- American lives
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women authors, American--Biography.
- Women authors, American.
- Loneliness.
- Isolation.
- Lambert, Sandra Gail, author.
- Lambert, Sandra Gail.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (210 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln ; London : University of Nebraska Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- After contracting polio as a child, Sandra Gail Lambert progressed from braces and crutches to a manual wheelchair to a power wheelchair-but loneliness has remained a constant, from the wild claustrophobia of a child in body casts to just yesterday, trapped at home, gasping from pain. A Certain Loneliness is a meditative and engaging memoir-in-essays that explores the intersection of disability, queerness, and female desire with frankness and humor. Lambert presents the adventures of flourishing within a world of uncertain tomorrows: kayaking alone through swamps withalligators; negotiating planes, trains, and ski lifts; scoring free drugs from dangerous men; getting trapped in a too-deep snow drift without crutches. A Certain Loneliness is literature of the body, palpable and present, in which Lambert's lifelong struggle with isolation and independence-complete with tiresome frustrations, slapstick moments, and grand triumphs-are wound up in the long history of humanity's relationship to the natural world.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781496208620
- 1496208625
- 9781496208644
- 1496208641
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