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Laddar... My Unsentimental Education (Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction)av Debra Monroe
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. I identified with many of the experiences in this book, and I appreciated Debra Monroe's excavation of Midwestern girlhood in particular. I loved her recreation of a world where prizes for figurative language are incomprehensible and prizes for "best sales record for radial tires in the tristate area" made sense. But what I value most is Monroe's lovely sentences. Her memoir rips along at a great pace, floating often above the level of scene in a storytelling voice that allows for analysis and essaying about the themes of work, ambition, class-jumping, and longing through such details as pronouncing "merlot" with the "t." As Monroe so deftly observes, you don't know the class you're in until you leave. This reminded me of Mary Clearman Blew's "This is Not the Ivy League," which is great company to be in. ( ) inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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"A misfit in Spooner, Wisconsin with its farms, bars, and strip joints, Debra Monroe leaves to earn a degree, then another, another, and builds a career--if only because her plans to be a Midwestern housewife continually get scuttled. Her professional life improves because she's good at 'hard-core feigning.' Fearless but naive, she vaults over class barriers, but never quite leaves her past behind. When it comes to men, she's still blue-collar. Monroe pays careful attention to what love and sex mean to a 'liberated' woman: to the pressure to be assertive yet not too assertive; to different prices women pay for being 'sultry-powerful' or 'brainy-powerful.' Both the story of her steady rise into the professional class and a parallel history of unsuitable exes, this memoir reminds us how accidental even a good life can be. If Joan Didion advises us 'to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be,' Monroe takes this advice a step further and nods at the people she might have become but didn't. Funny, poignant, wise, My Unsentimental Education explores the confusion that ensues when a working class girl ends up far from where she began"--Provided by publisher. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Google Books — Laddar... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Klassifikation enligt LCBetygMedelbetyg:
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