When Katie Wakes: A Memoir - Hardcover

Fowler, Connie May

 
9780385502016: When Katie Wakes: A Memoir
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 038550201X ISBN 13: 9780385502016
Verlag: Doubleday, 2002

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The author of Before Women Had Wings narrates the story of her own painful childhood with a manipulative mother, her relationship with an emotionally and physically abusive man, and the Labrador dog named Kateland who not only gave her unconditional love but also gave her the strength to escape the patterns of abuse to build a new life for herself.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

CONNIE MAY FOWLER is an essayist, screenwriter, and novelist. Her previous books include Sugar Cage, River of Hidden Dreams, and most recently, Remembering Blue. Her 1996 novel, Before Women Had Wings, won the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and was made into a successful "Oprah Winfrey Presents" TV movie. Remembering Blue won the Chautauqua South Award for Fiction. She and her husband are cofounders of the Connie May Fowler Women with Wings Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to aiding women and children in need. She lives in Florida.

Aus dem Klappentext

Bestselling author Connie May Fowler tells her own extraordinary story for the first time the harrowing years of her childhood followed by the abusive relationship she endured as a young woman and how the unconditional love of her dog helped her escape her physical and emotional bonds.
Before Women Had Wings, Connie May Fowler s award-winning and bestselling fictional account of domestic abuse, touched thousands. In this piercing memoir, Fowler chronicles the emotional battery and physical abuse that marked her own passage to adulthood. She draws a searing portrait of growing up with her manipulative and needy mother, a woman unable to give the love and comfort every child has a right to expect.
And then, as a young woman, Fowler found herself involved with a man whose behavior disturbingly echoed her mother s. The man she lived with alternately displayed a desperate need for her or rejected her as if she were worse than useless. With heart-wrenching candor, Fowler records the abuse she suffered at his hands, from his constant attempts to undermine her self- confidence to his acts of brutal physical violence.
The unconditional love Fowler longed for finally came in the shape of an adoring Labrador puppy named Kateland. With Katie at her side, she was able to withstand her mistreatment and the crushing weight of her childhood and, miraculously, managed to create a small refuge from the horrors that surrounded her. This is the story of her decision to end the years of mistreatment and even to open her life to a new, gentle man, whose love and understanding helped to transform her.
Well known for her fiction and her work with victims of domestic abuse, Fowler now offers a strong helping hand to women everywhere in this startling, revealing, and ultimately inspiring memoir.

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Verlag
Doubleday
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
038550201X
ISBN 13 
9780385502016
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
271
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