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Author | : Kate Simon |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 1997-08-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0140263314 |
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"As an account of growing up female, it is a fit companion piece to Mary McCarthy's classic Memoirs of a Catholic Girlhood."—Le Anne Schreiber, The New York Times.
Author | : Kate Simon |
Publisher | : HarperCollins Publishers |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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"As an account of growing up female, it is a fit companion piece to Mary McCarthy's classic Memoirs of a Catholic Girlhood."-Le Anne Schreiber, The New York Times.
Author | : Kate Simon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Bronx (New York, N.Y.) |
ISBN | : |
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The classic, unforgettable memoir of a young girl's coming of age, "Bronx Primitive" recalls the vitality of an immigrant neighborhood through the unsentimental eyes of a child. With an unerring eye for detail and an iridescent, clear-eyed prose, Kate Simon captures the particular world of her childhood as well as the universal uncertainties and triumphs of a young girl on the threshold of womanhood
Author | : Trinity Press International |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1999-12-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780340531723 |
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Author | : Neil Steinberg |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2008-06-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 144063128X |
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"A compelling read, sad and wistful and breathtakingly forthright."—Chicago Magazine Chicago Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg loved his job, his wife, and his two young sons. But he also loved to drink. Drunkard is an unflinchingly honest account of one man's descent into alcoholism and his ambivalent struggle to embrace sobriety. Sentenced to an outpatient rehab program, Steinberg discovers that twenty-eight days of therapy cannot reverse the toll taken by decades of hard drinking. As Steinberg claws his way through recovery, grieves the loss of the drink, and tries to shore up his faltering marriage, he is confronted by the greatest test he has ever faced, and finds himself in the process. Steinberg's gripping memoir is a frank and often painfully funny account of the stark-yet-common realities of a disease that affects millions.
Author | : Julian Brash |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0820335665 |
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New York mayor Michael Bloomberg claims to run the city like a business. In Bloomberg's New York, Julian Brash applies methods from anthropology, geography, and other social science disciplines to examine what that means. He describes the mayor's attitude toward governance as the Bloomberg Way—a philosophy that holds up the mayor as CEO, government as a private corporation, desirable residents and businesses as customers and clients, and the city itself as a product to be branded and marketed as a luxury good.Commonly represented as pragmatic and nonideological, the Bloomberg Way, Brash argues, is in fact an ambitious reformulation of neoliberal governance that advances specific class interests. He considers the implications of this in a blow-by-blow account of the debate over the Hudson Yards plan, which aimed to transform Manhattan's far west side into the city's next great high-end district. Bringing this plan to fruition proved surprisingly difficult as activists and entrenched interests pushed back against the Bloomberg administration, suggesting that despite Bloomberg's success in redrawing the rules of urban governance, older political arrangements—and opportunities for social justice—remain.
Author | : Annie Dillard |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2009-10-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0061857017 |
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"[In] this anthology of well-chosen excerpts by a satisfyingly diverse group of writers....the truth of their lives shines from every beautifully, often courageously composed page."— Booklist “Packed with superb writing.” — New York Newsday Modern American Memoirs is a sampling from 35 quintessential 20th century memoirs, including contributions from Margaret Mead, Malcolm X, Maxine Hong Kingston, Loren Eisely, and Zora Neale Hurston. Supremely written and excellent examples of the art of biography, these excerpts present a beautifully wide range of American life.
Author | : Kate Simon |
Publisher | : HarperCollins Publishers |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780060913793 |
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A poignant memoir of the immigrant experience, recalling with charm the flowering and fears of the author's adolescence in New York during the Depression. A beautifully written sequel to the popular Bronx Primitive.
Author | : Lloyd Ultan |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780813528632 |
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Official Bronx Borough Historian Ultan (history, Fairleigh Dickinson U.) and poet Unger (English, Rockland Community College) assemble excerpts from known and unknown writers, and black-and-white photographs, to chronicle the history of New York City's northernmost borough from the middle of the 17th century to the present. The material is presented according to the period the writer is discussing rather than by publication date. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Wednesday Martin |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2016-05-31 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1476762716 |
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"Like an urban Dian Fossey, Wednesday Martin decodes the primate social behaviors of Upper East Side mothers in a brilliantly original and witty memoir about her adventures assimilating into that most secretive and elite tribe. After marrying a man from the Upper East Side and moving to the neighborhood, Wednesday Martin struggled to fit in. Drawing on her background in anthropology and primatology, she tried looking at her new world through that lens, and suddenly things fell into place. She understood the other mothers' snobbiness at school drop-off when she compared them to olive baboons. Her obsessional quest for a Hermes Birkin handbag made sense when she realized other females wielded them to establish dominance in their troop. And so she analyzed tribal migration patterns; display rituals; physical adornment, mutilation, and mating practices; extra-pair copulation; and more. Her conclusions are smart, thought-provoking, and hilariously unexpected. Every city has its Upper East Side, and in Wednesday's memoir, readers everywhere will recognize the strange cultural codes of powerful social hierarchies and the compelling desire to climb them. They will also see that Upper East Side mothers want the same things for their children that all mothers want--safety, happiness, and success--and not even sky-high penthouses and chauffeured SUVs can protect this ecologically released tribe from the universal experiences of anxiety and loss. When Wednesday's life turns upside down, she learns how deep the bonds of female friendship really are. Intelligent, funny, and heartfelt, Primates of Park Avenue lifts a veil on a secret, elite world within a world--the exotic, fascinating, and strangely familiar culture of privileged Manhattan motherhood"--