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Description du livre Softcover. Etat : new. Becky Bradway writes compellingly about the place where she was raised and still lives but she also knows that the hidden component of place is time and its ceaseless motion and the motion it spawns in all of us On these many stable planes we are always passing throughfrom the Foreword by Michael MartoneMuch of what inspires Pink Houses and Family Taverns a collection of creative nonfiction by Becky Bradway is the authors upbringing in rural southern Illinois Coming of age among a family of carpenters housewives and factory workers Bradway works to get an education and to build a different kind of life for herself in spite of social pressures to keep her in her place Her dreams of becoming a writer and a professor often run headon with the hometowns expectations that she keep her mouth shut like a proper girl and with the universitys expectations that she toe a more formal conservative lineThe tension Bradway feels about Being From There permeates her memoir as she negotiates the transitions between childhood and adulthood rural life and urban life ignorance and sophistication She debates important life decisions and presents us with a vivid array of charactersfamily friends studentswho have made an impression on herBradway writes in a conversational style that is often humorous and occasionally sardonic and she approaches her subjects with sincerity openmindedness and compassion The essays are complemented by a selection of blackandwhite photographs of the region and its inhabitants. N° de réf. du vendeur DADAX0253215226
Description du livre Etat : New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1.5. N° de réf. du vendeur Q-0253215226