Telling: Confessions, Concessions, and Other Flashes of Light - Couverture rigide

Winik, Marion

 
9780679428596: Telling: Confessions, Concessions, and Other Flashes of Light
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0679428593 ISBN 13 : 9780679428596
Editeur : Villard Books, 1994

Synopsis

Book by Winik Marion

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Combining the insight of Anna Quindlen and the comic storytelling of Garrison Keillor with her own singularly outrageous humor, Marion Winik has captivated thousands of listeners on NPR's All Things Considered. Now, in Telling, she takes us on a journey both personal and universal, a tour of the minefield of chance and circumstance that make up a life. Along the way, she offers razor-sharp takes on everything from adolescence in suburban New Jersey ("Yes, I wanted to be a wild teenage rebel, but I wanted to do it with my parents' blessing") to hellish houseguests and bad-news boyfriends; from the joys of breastfeeding in public to the sometimes-salvation of motherhood.

Candid, passionate, and breathtakingly funny, Marion Winik maintains an unshaken belief that following one's heart is more important than following the rules -- and a conviction that the secrets we try to hide often contain the deepest truths.

"A born iconoclast, an aspiring artiste, a feminist vegetarian prodigal daughter, from early youth I considered myself destined to lead a startling life far outside the bounds of convention. I would be famous, dangerous, brilliant and relentlessly cool: a sort of cross between Emma Goldman, Jack Kerouac, and Georgia O'Keeffe.... So where did this station wagon come from?" -- from Telling

Revue de presse

"Winik's voice is so true and clear and compassionate, we're happy to listen to any story she wants to tell."- Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Winik has an unpredictable, humorous, erratically spinning life and a straightforward, wry way of serving it up... Beneath every essay there is wit, humor and hope." -Houston Chronicle

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Éditeur
Villard Books
Date d'édition
1994
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0679428593
ISBN 13 
9780679428596
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
213
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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9780679755227: Telling: Confessions, Concessions, and Other Flashes of Light

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0679755225 ISBN 13 :  9780679755227
Editeur : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1995
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