American Lives : A Reader.

By: Christensen, AliciaContributor(s): Wolff, TobiasMaterial type: TextTextSeries: American LivesPublisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (327 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780803234833Subject(s): Autobiographies -- United States | United States -- BiographyGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: American Lives : A ReaderDDC classification: 920.02 22 LOC classification: CT211 -- .A478 2010ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- 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.
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.
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Intro -- 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.

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.

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