| The Boys of My Youth Lib/E Contributor(s): Beard, Jo Ann (Read by) |
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ISBN: 147891386X ISBN-13: 9781478913863 Publisher: Little Brown and Company OUR PRICE: $62.99 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: June 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Women - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: B |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Rarely does the debut of a new writer garner such attention & acclaim. The excitement began the moment The Fourth State of Matter, one of the fourteen extraordinary personal narratives in this book, appeared in the pages of the New Yorker. It increased when the author received a prestigious Whiting Foundation Award in November 1997, & it continued as the hardcover edition of The Boys of My Youth sold out its first printing even before publication. The author writes with perfect pitch as she takes us through one woman's life-from childhood to marriage & beyond-and memorably captures the collision of youthful longing & the hard intransigences of time & fate. |
Contributor Bio(s): Beard, Jo Ann: - Jo Ann Beard is the author of a collection of autobiographical essays, The Boys of My Youth. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Tin House, Best American Essays, and other magazines and anthologies. She received a Whiting Foundation Award and nonfiction fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. |