The Best of Friends; Two Women, Two Continents, and One Enduring Friendship
James, Sara and Mauney, Ginger
Langue : anglais
Edité par William Morrow (An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers), New York, 2007
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viii, [2], 337, [5] pages. Illustrations. Signed by both authors on the half-title page. Some pages off-white. Includes Preface. Now, in their heartfelt memoir, Ginger Mauney and Sara James alternately narrate the story of how, they, two women separated by thousands of miles, have found themselves bound together through temperament, circumstance, and serendipity. The Best of Friends uses the example of their lives to explore such universal questions as: When your heart is broken, how do you heal? How do you realize your dreams without compromising yourself? How do you tame ambition to make room for love and family? And what does it mean as an adult to be a "best" friend? This is also the story of so many women in their twenties, thirties, and forties who, with the help of friends, dared to reinvent their lives just when it seemed that everything was falling apart. Sara and Ginger have a friendship that so many modern women can understand--complicated and simple at the same time. Women who in many ways are opposites, yet have a powerful connection that can only be called "sisterhood." Sara James is an Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist and author. Sara has covered news events in Australasia for NBC, CNN and PBS. Sara covered the 2012 tour of Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge to Singapore, Malaysia and the Solomon Islands. She reported on the 2011 earthquake in Christchurch and the 2009 bush fires in Victoria. She served as substitute newsreader on the NBC Today Show, was a frequent co-anchor of Weekend Today and often anchored MSNBC. Wildlife filmmaker Ginger Mauney has had her films broadcast on the National Geographic Channel and the Public Broadcasting Service in the United States, and on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. In 2007, Mauney, working with her childhood friend Sara James, composed a memoir of their lives, beginning with the time they spent together as girls and continuing through their parallel (yet quite different) careers. The two grew up in Richmond, Virginia, where they were "friends from the age of twelve, when they first shared secrets at a sleepover party," stated a Kirkus Reviews contributor. Later, the two grew up and went their separate ways, only to reunite after a decade-long absence from one another's lives. While James became an award-winning television journalist, Mauney turned to documentary filmmaking, creating movies that told stories about the animals inhabiting the wild areas of her adopted country, Namibia. In The Best of Friends: Two Women, Two Continents, and One Enduring Friendship, James and Mauney, wrote the Kirkus Reviews contributor, "look back over the years of friendship that sustained them through the ups and downs of their . lives." The concept for a book on friendship, James revealed in a joint interview with Mauney published on the Web site iVillage, "actually came to me quite suddenly one day when I was on a road trip. It was one of those moments where you mull over life, and think about how you got from where you started to where you are now. In my case," she continued, she was "sitting in a car with a man from 10,000 miles away whom I had just married. And at that moment, it occurred to me that the person who understood that better than anything was my dear friend Ginger, because her life was so similar. Except for the fact that it was absolutely opposite." However, the attraction that drew them back into their friendship, the two authors agree, is based not on the ways in which their lives are now alike, but on their shared past. "They believe that what binds them together," declared Heather Byer in the New York Times Book Review, "is not their great desire to achieve but the durability of a friendship that has lasted decades." "With candor, insight, and wisdom," Carol Haggas wrote in her Booklist review, "James and Mauney joyfully celebrate the inspiring essence of friendship." From sharing secrets as children to chasing unconventional dreams as adults, network.…
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- Titre
- The Best of Friends; Two Women, Two Continents, and One Enduring Friendship
- Auteur
- James, Sara and Mauney, Ginger
- Éditeur
- William Morrow (An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers), New York
- Année de publication
- 2007
- État de l'article
- Very good
- Jaquette
- Very good
- Signé
- Signé par l'auteur
- Reliure
- Hardcover
- Langue
- anglais
- ISBN à 10 chiffres
- 0060779489
- ISBN à 13 chiffres
- 9780060779481
- Illustrateur
- Luca Babini (Author photograph)
- Édition
- Edition originale
- Catalogues du vendeur
- South Africa
From sharing secrets as children to chasing unconventional dreams as adults, network correspondent Sara James and wildlife filmmaker Ginger Mauney explore their learning curve on life through the lens of their thirty-year friendship
Transplanting southern roots to southern Africa, Ginger Mauney has earned the acceptance of a troop of baboons, unraveled mysteries of life and death in an elephant herd, and raised her young son in the wilds of Namibia—but has often felt the pull of the country she once called home. As a local television anchor, Sara James paid her own way to cover the war in Nicaragua, a gamble that later propelled her to NBC. At the network, James exposed slavery in Sudan and plunged to the gravesite of the Titanic, but struggled to balance her demanding career with marriage and motherhood.
Though the two lead seemingly opposite lives, there is much they share: a hometown in Richmond, Virginia, an attraction to life on the razor's edge, a weakness for men with foreign passports and accents, and a past. Now, in their heartfelt memoir, Mauney and James alternately narrate the story of how, they, two women separated by thousands of miles, have found themselves bound together through temperament, circumstance, and serendipity. The Best of Friends uses the example of their lives to explore such universal questions as: When your heart is broken, how do you heal? How do you realize your dreams without compromising yourself? How do you tame ambition to make room for love and family? And what does it mean as an adult to be a "best" friend?
The Best of Friends is James and Mauney's story, but it is also the story of so many women in their twenties, thirties, and forties who, with the help of friends, dared to reinvent their lives just when it seemed that everything was falling apart.
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À propos de l’auteur
Sara James is an Emmy Award-winning correspondent and anchor who has reported for Dateline, the Today show, and NBC Nightly News. She lives in New York City with her husband and their two daughters.
Filmmaker Ginger Mauney has lived and worked in Namibia for sixteen years. Her films have aired on National Geographic Explorer, PBS, Channel 4 (UK), and in more than fifty countries worldwide. She lives in Namibia with her husband and their son.
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