Biography & Autobiography : Literary

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Examines the submissive and masochistic posture towards women exhibited by many of Hemingway's heroes. This discussion reveals that despite Hemingway's rugged and hypermasculine image, a 'masochistic aesthetic' informs many of the texts. This study will appeal to readers with an interest in Hemingway, gender issues, and American literature. more...

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A collection of essays from some of today's hottest writers reflecting on how Judy Blume's novels affected their childhoods. From puberty to first loves to divorce, Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume follows the j more...

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The author of The Debt to Pleasure digs into his family’s extraordinary past in a. memoir as enthralling as his finest fiction. It was only when his mother died that John Lanchester realized how little he really knew about his. parents. With the cache of letters and papers she left behind, he set out to reconstruct just who. his parents had been. In doing so, he did much more than trace the remarkable story of a. reluctant international banker, a secretive former nun, and the life they shared; he also gained. extraordinary insight into his own nature and a deeper understanding of the universal push-pull of. family love—and family loss. Part detective work, part evocation of character, this is, above all,. compelling storytelling. more...

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Change Me Into Zeus's Daughter, Barbara Moss's charming first book, looked at her childhood growing up in a poor and chaotic household in Anniston, Alabama, one of 8 children struggling under an alcoholic and abusive father whom they both adored and feared. Her new book weaves together a patchwork of true stories that look at what happens to a family like this when the children grow up. Fierce is a warm, honest, moving and redemptive story of a woman determined to shrug off the handicaps of her childhood, to forge an artistic career for herself and raise her lovable son responsibly -- in short, to break the patterns that she has been taught. Moss paints a moving and amusing portrait of her life as a single mother in art school and on welfare in the suburbs of Florida and the Midwest. And she shows us the great lengths to which she went to make a different life for her son Jason, and for herself. (She writes bittersweetly of Jason sleeping in a sleeping bag at her feet during her night job; together hunting up and down streets of questionable safety for returnable bottles and cans; Barbara, on a dinner date, filling her purse full of bread and shrimp and even a doily to bring home to her 8-year-old.). Ultimately she learns that the legacies of addiction and abuse can manifest in many different ways. While her brother Stewart struggles with fatal alcoholism, Barbara resolutely never drinks a drop, but after their father dies suddenly her world spins out of control. An unhealthy tendency toward abusive relationships with men gets exponentially worse as she cultivates a relationship that will threaten everything she has accomplished. It's a painful awakening when she realizes that her obsession with drama and rescue and abusive relationships is no less of an addiction than her brother's alcoholism. Moss was so busy trying not to become her alcoholic father, and to save her alcoholic brother, that she didn't notice turning into her co-dependent mother more...

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