ISBN: 9780395765319 - daughter of the queen of sheba: a memoir (20 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Good. The journalist describes her work as a foreign correspondent and the close relationship she had with her mother, who suffered from manic depression and was often deluded and convinced she was Marie Antoinette or the Queen of Sheba.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Zustand: Good. 1ST. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. RELIABLE library withdrawal with a NICE dust jacket in the plastic, protective cover. Stamped at the page edge, the card pocket page has been clipped by the library. Light scuff to the plastic covers. This edition is PRESENTABLE.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. New York: Houghton Mifflin [1997]. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. Fine/Fine. A nice clean tight copy. Sale, Memoir, Nonfiction.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good Plus. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket, As Issued. 1st. First Edition. Uncorrected Proof. Published NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. 8vo. wrappers. Ex-library with pocket and bar code label inside rear cover, label on spine. Very good plus, tight, unread.

hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Includes dust jacket. Signed. Signed by the author.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Daughter of the Queen of Sheba This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping.…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 257 pages; This lyrical memoir is a moving mother-daughter story. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. …

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Zustand: NEAR FINE. First printing. A colorful memoir by this senior correspondent for NPR, in which Lyden describes growing up the daughter of a mother suffering from manic depression. In her manic states, Dolores Lyden was the Queen of Sheba, a hostess of bizarre dinner parties or a promoter of outrageous business ventures. Lyden links her own journalist's wanderlust to her mother's escape into madness, and finds herself in places like Iraq and northern Ireland, where the whole world seems crazier than Dolores. 257 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. A very beautiful first edition/first printing, SIGNED and dated ("9/28/97") by author Jackie Lyden on the half-title page; This memoir of the foreign correspondent for National Public Radio, is a mother-daughter story of the most deeply moving kind. Jacki Lyden recalls her calamitous childhood with a child's aching regret and an adult's keen wisdom. Daughter of the Queen of Sheba, a compelling tale of two women with a scrappy genius for survival; 8vo; Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Very good in very good dust jacket. Price clipped. Lines of staining of front jacket. Writing in pen on first page inside book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. Second edition. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Second Printing. 22 cm, 257, slight weakening at verso, promotional sticker on DJ, slight wear & soiling to DJ, small tear front DJ. Inscribed by the author. The National Public Radio correspondent details her life growing up with a mother who was manic-depressive. In this memoir, Lyden writes about her life, especially the challenges with her her mother, who was mentally ill and in a dysfunctional marriage. Jacki Lyden (born 1953 or 1954) is an American journalist and author of the memoir, Daughter of the Queen of Sheba (1997). In 1979, Lyden joined National Public Radio as a freelance reporter in the Chicago bureau. By 1989, Lyden was stationed in London, covering The Troubles in Northern Ireland. She covered the Gulf War from the Middle East. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, she continued to serve as a foreign correspondent for NPR. Lyden was NPR's first correspondent on the air from New York during the September 11 attacks and reported from "Ground Zero". In late 2001, she served as a foreign correspondent in Afghanistan. As a regular substitute host for Weekend All Things Considered and other shows, like Weekend Edition, she interviewed numerous poets, authors, filmmakers. During a 2008 downsizing, Lyden's staff position as an All Things Considered substitute host was eliminated. She continued as a contributing host and correspondent on a temporary basis from 2009 through 2014, when her contract ended. Her reporting has earned her wide acclaim, including two Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award awards, a Peabody Award, and a Gracie Award. As an NPR correspondent, Jacki Lyden visited some dangerous war zonesâ"but her childhood was a war zone of a different kind. Lyden's mother suffered from what is now called bipolar disorder or manic depression. But in a small Wisconsin town in the sixties and seventies she was simply "crazy." In her delusions, Lyden's mother was a woman of power: Marie Antoinette or the Queen of Sheba. But in reality, she had married the nefarious local doctor, who drugged her to keep her moods in check and terrorized the children to keep them quiet. Holding their lives together was Lyden's hardscrabble Irish grandmother, a woman who had her first child at the age of fourteen and lost her husband in a barroom brawl. In this memoir, Lyden vividly captures the seductive energy of her mother's delusions and the effect they had on her own life. She paints a portrait of three remarkable womenâ"mother, daughter, and grandmotherâ"revealing their obstinate devotion to one another against all odds, and their scrappy genius for survival. "What distinguishes Daughter of the Queen of Sheba from any other book about dysfunctional parents . . . and turns this exotic memoir into compelling literature is the dreamy poetry of Lyden's prose. In graceful imagery as original (and occasionally as highly wrought) as her mother's costumes, Lydenâ"a senior correspondent for National Public Radioâ"loops and loops again around the central fact of her mother's manic depression and how that illness shaped Lyden's life growing up with two younger sisters, a scrappy Irish grandmother (whose memory she holds like âa cotton rag around a cut'), a father who left, and a hated stepfather." â"Entertainment Weekly. Caroline Knapp writing in The New York Times described the book: "The writing -- vivid, original, lyrical -- shines at its most haunting, when Lyden homes in on the specifics of her mother's behavior". Michiko Kakutani wrote a review in 1997, saying this memoir was "a book that belongs on the shelf of classic memoirs, alongside The Liars' Club by Mary Karr and Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt." Kakutani called her writing "deft, luminous prose" and described the book as "both a reporter's unsentimental act of recollection and a love letter to an impossible and captivating woman.".…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. First Printing [Stated]. The format is approximately 5.75 inches by 8.5 inches. viii, [4], 257, [3] pages. Autographed copy sticker on front of DJ. Signed by the author on the title page. In this memoir, Lyden (National Public Radio) writes about her life, especially the challenges with her her mother, who was mentally ill (manic-depressive) and in a dysfunctional marriage. Jacki Lyden (born 1953 or 1954) is an American journalist and author of the memoir, Daughter of the Queen of Sheba (1997). In 1979, Lyden joined National Public Radio as a freelance reporter in the Chicago bureau. By 1989, Lyden was stationed in London, covering The Troubles in Northern Ireland. She covered the Gulf War from the Middle East. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, she continued to serve as a foreign correspondent for NPR. Lyden was NPR's first correspondent on the air from New York during the September 11 attacks and reported from "Ground Zero". In late 2001, she served as a foreign correspondent in Afghanistan. As a regular substitute host for Weekend All Things Considered and other shows, like Weekend Edition, she interviewed numerous poets, authors, filmmakers. During a 2008 downsizing, Lyden's staff position as an All Things Considered substitute host was eliminated. She continued as a contributing host and correspondent on a temporary basis from 2009 through 2014, when her contract ended. Her reporting has earned her wide acclaim, including two Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award awards, a Peabody Award, and a Gracie Award. As an NPR correspondent, Jacki Lyden visited some dangerous war zonesâ"but her childhood was a war zone of a different kind. Lyden's mother suffered from what is now called bipolar disorder or manic depression. But in a small Wisconsin town in the sixties and seventies she was simply "crazy." In her delusions, Lyden's mother was a woman of power: Marie Antoinette or the Queen of Sheba. But in reality, she had married the nefarious local doctor, who drugged her to keep her moods in check and terrorized the children to keep them quiet. Holding their lives together was Lyden's hardscrabble Irish grandmother, a woman who had her first child at the age of fourteen and lost her husband in a barroom brawl. In this memoir, Lyden vividly captures the seductive energy of her mother's delusions and the effect they had on her own life. She paints a portrait of three remarkable womenâ"mother, daughter, and grandmotherâ"revealing their obstinate devotion to one another against all odds, and their scrappy genius for survival. "What distinguishes Daughter of the Queen of Sheba from any other book about dysfunctional parents . . . and turns this exotic memoir into compelling literature is the dreamy poetry of Lyden's prose. In graceful imagery as original (and occasionally as highly wrought) as her mother's costumes, Lydenâ"a senior correspondent for National Public Radioâ"loops and loops again around the central fact of her mother's manic depression and how that illness shaped Lyden's life growing up with two younger sisters, a scrappy Irish grandmother (whose memory she holds like âa cotton rag around a cut'), a father who left, and a hated stepfather." â"Entertainment Weekly. Caroline Knapp writing in The New York Times described the book: "The writing -- vivid, original, lyrical -- shines at its most haunting, when Lyden homes in on the specifics of her mother's behavior". Michiko Kakutani wrote a review in 1997, saying this memoir was "a book that belongs on the shelf of classic memoirs, alongside The Liars' Club by Mary Karr and Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt." Kakutani called her writing "deft, luminous prose" and described the book as "both a reporter's unsentimental act of recollection and a love letter to an impossible and captivating woman.". Michael Boys (Mirror photograph) and Marion Ettlin (illustrator).…