If I Had My Life to Live Over - Softcover

SANDRA HALDEMAN MARTZ

 
9780918949240: If I Had My Life to Live Over
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0918949246 ISBN 13: 9780918949240
Verlag: PAPIER-MACHE PRESS, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

In the sequel to When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple, a collection of poems, stories, and photographs explores the challenges, conflicts, satisfactions, and dilemmas associated with a wide range of women's choices. Simultaneous. 70,000 first printing.

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Sandra Haldeman Martz is the founder-publisher of Papier-Mache Press and the editor of the bestselling anthology series (2.5 million copies sold worldwide) that includes When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple, Grow Old Along with Me-The Best Is Yet to Be, and Generation to Generation. Martz anthologies have won an American Book Award, two Benjamin Franklin Awards, an American Booksellers Association Book of the Year (ABBY) Honors Award, and a Grammy nomination (in the spoken word category) for the Audio Literature recording of Grow Old Along with Me-The Best Is Yet to Be. Martz received her MBA from California State University at Dominguez Hills and is a graduate of the UCLA Executive Development Program. She lives in Watsonville, California.

Rezensionen

Lacking the eccentricity and distinctiveness of its bestselling predecessor, When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple (on women and aging), also edited by Martz, this new volume on the theme of the choices women make throughout their lives is simplistic at best. The language of most stories and poems here is uninventive and often cliched; themes are staid. "A child is growing somewhere / in this weary world, / an innocent unwary / of emotions shattered," writes Shirley Vogler Meister in a sing-song, rhyming poem about adoption; and the narrator of Stephany Brown's story, whose boyfriend promptly enlisted in the Army when at 16 she told him she was pregnant, says that "having his baby is still the best thing I ever did." Too many of these pieces have haunting echoes of a campaign for Family Values. Reading these pages, one would assume women no longer make choices other than having children vs. having an abortion, marriage vs. divorce, or which boy to date. A few excellent tidbits--Janice Levy's story about a Mexican woman entering the U.S. illegally and working as a maid or Pat Schneider's poem about a sister choosing to be a nun--are not enough to make this volume worth reading. 70,000 first printing.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Verlag
PAPIER-MACHE PRESS
Erscheinungsdatum
1994
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0918949246
ISBN 13 
9780918949240
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
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