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I Hear Voices: A Memoir of Love, Death, and the Radio - Couverture souple

Feraca, Jean

 
9780299285746: I Hear Voices: A Memoir of Love, Death, and the Radio
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 029928574X ISBN 13 : 9780299285746
Editeur : University of Wisconsin Press, 2011

Synopsis

Jean Feraca's road to self-fulfillment has been as quirky and demanding as the characters in her incredible memoir. A veteran of several decades of public radio broadcasting, Feraca is also a writer and a poet. She is a talk show host beloved for her unique mixture of the humanities, poetry, and journalism, and is the creator of the pioneering international cultural affairs radio program Here on Earth: Radio without Borders. In this searing memoir, Feraca traces her own emergence. She pulls back the curtain on her private life, revealing unforgettable portraits of the characters in her brawling Italian-American family: Jenny, the grandmother, the devil woman who threw Casey Stengel down an excavation pit; Dolly, the mother, a cross between Long John Silver and the Wife of Bath, who in battling mental illness becomes the scourge of a Lutheran nursing home; and Stephen, the brilliant but troubled older brother, an anthropologist adopted by a Sioux tribe. In a new chapter that reinforces and ties together the book's exploration of the multiple forms of love, Jean introduces us to Roger, a Wildman and her husband's best friend with whom she, too, develops an extraordinary intimacy. A selection of fifteen of Feraca's poems add counterpoint to her engaging prose.

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Éditeur
University of Wisconsin Press
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
029928574X
ISBN 13 
9780299285746
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
248
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