Surrendering Oz: A Life in Essays - Softcover

Friedman, Bonnie

 
9780989753227: Surrendering Oz: A Life in Essays
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0989753220 ISBN 13: 9780989753227
Verlag: Etruscan Press, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

Surrendering Oz is a memoir in essays that charts the emotional awakening of a bookish Bronx girl. From her early job as a proofreader at The Guinness Book of World Records through a series of dominating and liberating friendships and secret connections, the author takes charge of her life as a Texas professor, writer, and wise student of her own soul.

Reader&;s Digest says reading Surrendering Oz “is like having a conversation with a bracingly honest but fundamentally kind friend. In 15 pitch-perfect essays, she chronicles her hard-earned rejection of the cultural fairytales of womanhood as she comes fully into possession of her life.&;

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Bonnie Friedman is the author of the widely anthologized Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction, and Other Dilemmas in the Writer&;s Life. She is also the author of The Thief of Happiness: The Story of an Extraordinary Psychotherapy. Her work has appeared in The Best American Movie Writing, The Best Buddhist Writing, The Best Writing on Writing, the Best Spiritual Writing, and The Best of O., the Oprah Magazine. She teaches creative writing at the University of North Texas, and divides her time between Brooklyn, New York, and Denton, Texas.

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Verlag
Etruscan Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0989753220
ISBN 13 
9780989753227
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
241
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