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Conway, Jill Ker True North: A Memoir
New York, New York, U.S.A. Vintage Books 1994 0679744614 / 9780679744610 Trade Paperback Fine No Jacket
With all the openness to life, all the largeness of spirit, that made her girlhood memoir, The Road from Coorain, an acclaimed - and beloved - bestseller, Jill Ker Conway continues her story. She was twenty-five when we left her, driven by a hunger to know and to understand, boarding a plane that would carry her far from her Australian homeland. As True North begins she lands, appropriately enough, in a hurricane, in New York. And is soon at Harvard, a graduate student in history experiencing both exhilaration and culture shock; discovering among friends of many backgrounds an easier sociability than she has ever known; delighting in classes that seem charged with energy, and in the perception that ideas were being taken seriously - yet still feeling like an extraterrestrial on the American planet. We see her joining with five other women to form a household that becomes an "almost magical," hilarious, and harmonious community - the community that functions as her family when she meets the Harvard professor and housemaster who will become her husband, John Conway, himself a historian, Canadian born and bred, decorated for heroism in World War II - the complex man whose mind and spirit complement her own. We see them marrying and learning to live together - during a year at Oxford, in Rome, and as they settle into the new world of Canadian university life - happy with each other, while coping, not always well, with her classically obsessive thesis writing, her as-yet-unresolved conflict with her mother, his periodic bouts of depression, and her realization that even though John's integrity, courage, and devotion to humanistic learning have become the compass point - the true north - by which she steers, there will be times when she has to navigate alone. We witness the moment of her spiritual arrival on this continent and her discovery of her warrior self - fighting for equity in her own career and for other women. This is how a most private woman found for hers
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Conway, Jill Ker When Memory Speaks: Reflections on Autobiography
Alfred A Knopf Inc 1998 0679445935 / 9780679445937 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good + Near-Fine
Stated First Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $23.00. Dustcover shows light wear (NO tears). 209 pages. NO tears inside book. 29 pages show light writing/underlining. Does NOT interfere with reading. Tight spine, bright pages. Synopsis Having devoured Frank McCourt's memoir, Angela's Ashes, the reading world seems to be asking the very questions addressed by Jill Ker Conway in her exploration of personal narrative: "Why is autobiography the most popular form of fiction for modern readers? Why are so many people moved to write their life stories today?" Conway also examines the differences between men's and women's narratives: "If the autobiographer gazes at himself in the mirror of culture, just as the portrait painter must when working on his self-portrait, how should a woman use a mirror derived from the male experience?" Beginning with St. Augustine, Conway delves into the evolution of the autobiography, giving readers a sense of what was thought appropriate for men or women to say about their lives according to the period. She points out the discrepancy between the lives of active women and the romantic, passive voice they use to tell their stories. Readers will come away with a greater appreciation for autobiography; more than that, When Memory Speaks will alert readers to their power in the shaping of their personal histories -- whether written or not.
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Conway, Jill Ker When Memory Speaks: Reflections on Autobiography
Alfred A Knopf Inc 1998 0679445935 / 9780679445937 First Edition Hard Cover Fine Near-Fine
Stated First Edition. NO price clippings - small remainder dot on top. Price inside dustcover: $23.00. Dustcover shows light wear & 1 very-small, closed tear. 209 pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Tight spine, bright pages. Synopsis Having devoured Frank McCourt's memoir, Angela's Ashes, the reading world seems to be asking the very questions addressed by Jill Ker Conway in her exploration of personal narrative: "Why is autobiography the most popular form of fiction for modern readers? Why are so many people moved to write their life stories today?" Conway also examines the differences between men's and women's narratives: "If the autobiographer gazes at himself in the mirror of culture, just as the portrait painter must when working on his self-portrait, how should a woman use a mirror derived from the male experience?" Beginning with St. Augustine, Conway delves into the evolution of the autobiography, giving readers a sense of what was thought appropriate for men or women to say about their lives according to the period. She points out the discrepancy between the lives of active women and the romantic, passive voice they use to tell their stories. Readers will come away with a greater appreciation for autobiography; more than that, When Memory Speaks will alert readers to their power in the shaping of their personal histories -- whether written or not.
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