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Bush recounts the car accident that she caused at age seventeen in which a friend and classmate was killed and she was also scarred. She writes that the 1963 crash "is a guilt I will carry for the rest of my life". [1] [2] She describes an idyllic life growing up in Midland, Texas. She calls the town "a place of ice cream sundaes…and Saturday ...
In America is a 1999 novel by Susan Sontag. It won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction . [ 1 ] It is based on the true story of Polish actress Helena Modjeska (called Maryna Zalewska in the book), her arrival in California in 1876, and her ascendancy to American stardom.
Poet Maggie Smith seems to have the idyllic life: a devoted husband, two kids, lots of friends and a big house in a leafy town in Ohio where her family has lived for generations. Smith says at the ...
Perplexing incidents intrude on young Lanny's idyllic life. Robbie erupts when he learns Beauty's "Red" brother Jesse introduced Lanny to followers of syndicalism . On the train home from a picture-postcard Christmas at Kurt's family schloss , a Social Democrat says commoners in Silesia are basically slaves; and Lanny should avoid being alone ...
Passages about both are the closest the book ever comes to feeling like it was written by a real-life person rather than an AI fed with a Wikipedia page and an over-inflated sense of self-importance.
A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman of the South is the first book by American author, educator, and activist Anna J. Cooper. First published in 1892, the book is widely viewed as one of the first articulations of Black feminism . [ 1 ]
Fascinating Womanhood is a book written by Helen Andelin and published in 1963. The book recently went into its sixth edition, published by Random House. [2] 2,000,000 copies have been sold, and it is credited with starting a grassroots movement among women.
Many years after escaping the less-than-kind clutches of her mother, Sandra Oh's Amanda is living an idyllic life of beekeeping with her own daughter, Chrissy (Fivel Stewart). Things turn from ...