'A must-read classic' Mary Karr 'Trethewey writes elegantly, trenchantly, intimately as well about the fraught history of the south and what it means live at the intersection of America's struggle between blackness and whiteness. And what, in our troubled republic, is a subject more evergreen?' Mitchell S. Jackson Natasha Trethewey was born in Mississippi in the 60s to a black mother and a white father. When she was six, Natasha's parents divorced, and she and her mother moved to Atlanta. The...
The Boy With A Bamboo Heart
by Amporn Wathanavongs and Chantal Jauvin
"An account of the reformation and rehabilitation of Tihar Prison, one of the largest prisons in Asia. With a foreword by the Dalai Lama and input from the prisoners themselves, this book illustrates Dr. Bedi's efforts to fundamentally change an entire prison system of criminality to one of humanity"--Provided by publisher.
With introduction by Dr Margaret Bradstock. Widely and positively reviewed at the time of publication in 1903, Ada Cambridge's incisive and moving autobiography, Thirty Years in Australia, now re-emerges in a modern new edition. Enthusiasts and cultural historians alike will welcome the reappearance of this lively and significant volume. Includes an updated introduction by Dr Margaret Bradstock, and the introduction to the 1989 edition by Dr Margaret Bradstock and Dr Louise Wakeling.
In her late 30s, journalist Jill Smolowe's life and career at "Time Magazine" was on track. Her husband, Joe, was still her most trusted confidante and best friend. And now that she and Joe had decided finally to have a child, Jill assumed the pregnancy that had come so easily to all the women in her family would be her own next chapter. But nature had a different script in mind. As her quest for a child swerved from the roller coaster of infertility procedures toward the baffling maze of adopti...
Convinced that an important voice is missing in all the academic and feminist writings on women's issues - the voice of women themselves - journalist Elsa Walsh has spent several years talking to women about their lives. She has listened as women have confided in her about their inner struggles as they attempt to build careers and families - their frustrations, resentments and regrets that are too often left unspoken. In portraits of candour and intimacy, this book probes the lives of three acco...
Polly Adler's ""house"" - the brothel that gave this best-selling 1953 autobiography its title - was a major site of New York City underworld activity from the 1920s through the 1940s. Adler's notorious Lexington Avenue house of prostitution functioned as a sort of social club for New York's gangsters and a variety of other celebrities, including Robert Benchley and his friend Dorothy Parker. According to one New York tabloid, it made Adler's name ""synonymous with sin."" This new edition of Adl...
These Modern Women
In her unique dual biography, Kate Ashton delineates the parallel lives of Hans Christian Anderson and Søren Kierkegaard, their personal relationship, literary careers, and lasting cultural influence on the western and wider world. These two towering literary geniuses followed radically divergent paths, and yet each read and reacted to the immense power and depth of the other's growing oeuvre as it refracted their own. Against the backdrop of the end of Golden Age Denmark within a warring Europe...
"I have a dad who is a woman, much like me, but with better legs." Growing up, Noelle Howey hardly spoke to her distant, bad-tempered father. "After coming home, he'd mix up a twelve-consonant vodka and orange juice and then sleep, watch TV, drink, and sleep again. Occasionally, he'd shake up the routine by eating a salad." Instead Noelle drew all her comfort from her wonderful, tomboyish mother. Then, when she reached 14, Noelle finally discovered her father's secret: Dick Howey liked to wear w...
Poet Karen Gershon (1923-1993) opens ""A Tempered Wind"", the sequel to volume 1 of her autobiography ""A Lesser Child"", in 1943. It begins tragically with the death of Karen's sister Anne in England, where they had escaped from Nazi Germany with their third sister Lise via the Kinder-transport mission. ""A Tempered Wind"" proceeds to chart the difficult period from 1939 to 1943 as Karen adapts to a new culture and undertakes the complicated passage from adolescence to adulthood in the British...
A classic memoir retold to reveal a long kept secret. When Ben Duncan chronicled his evolution from a Depression-era orphan in Alabama to an Oxford educated writer and commentator in England in 1962, he was unable to tell his whole story. He revealed much - a harrowing childhood, his tenacity and drive for self-definition and self-creation. But he also hid crucial parts of his life that would remain masked for fifty years. As a gay man living in Great Britain at a time when homosexuality was agg...
"Reading Kathy Greenwood's account of growing up on a small ranch in southeastern New Mexico, I kept wondering where she had heard the story of my life. From her ill-starred introduction into the fine art of milking a recalcitrant Jersey cow to her uneasy homecoming from graduate school, she kept reflecting incidents out of my own West Texas experience. In many ways she reflects the life of almost everyone--man or woman--who has grown up on a ranch . . . She writes with a sparkle and a keen wit....
Before performing stand-up comedy on The Tonight Show and writing on the staff of Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher, Mack Dryden survived on goat butt soup in a Moroccan jail, not knowing if he'd ever be released. He lived not only to tell the tale, but--amazingly--to inspire, instruct, and make us laugh out loud about it as well. Dryden currently lives in California with his wife and children.