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Conway, Jill Ker The Road from Coorain
Vintage Books 1990 0679724362 / 9780679724360 Trade Paperback Very Good +
Very-good, clean copy. NO writing, marks or tears. Tight spine - NO remainder marks or price clippings. 238 pages. - Annotation From the shelter of a protective family to the lessons of tragedy and independence this is an indelible portrait of a remarkable woman's life. From the Publisher In A Memoir that pierces and delights us, Jill Ker Conway tells the story of her astonishing journey into adulthood — a journey that would ultimately span immense distances and encompass worlds, ideas, and ways of life that seem a century apart. She was seven before she ever saw another girl child. At eight, still too small to mount her horse unaided, she was galloping miles, alone, across Coorain, her parents' thirty thousand windswept, drought-haunted acres in the Australian outback, doing a "man's job" of helping herd the sheep because World War II had taken away the able-bodied men. She loved (and makes us see and feel) the vast unpeopled landscape, beautiful and hostile, whose uncertain weathers tormented the sheep ranchers with conflicting promises of riches and inescapable disaster. She adored (and makes us know) her large-visioned father and her strong, radiant mother, who had gone willingly with him into a pioneering life of loneliness and bone-breaking toil, who seemed miraculously to succeed in creating a warmly sheltering home in the harsh outback, and who, upon her husband's sudden death when Jill was ten, began to slide — bereft of the partnership of work and love that had so utterly fulfilled her — into depression and dependency. We see Jill, staggered by the loss of her father, catapulted to what seemed another planet — the suburban Sydney of the 1950s and its crowded, noisy, cliquish school life. Then the heady excitement of the University, but with it a yet more demanding course of lessons — Jill embracing new ideas, new possibilities, while at the same time trying to be mother to her mother and resenting it, escaping into drink,pulling herself back, striking a balance. We see her slowly gaining strength, coming into her own emotionally and intellectually -and beginning the joyous love affair that gave wings to her newfound self. Worlds away from Coorain, in America, Jill Conway became a historian and the first woman president of Smith College. Her story of Coorain and the road from Coorain startles by its passion and evocative power, by its understanding of the ways in which a total, deep-rooted commitment to place or to a dream can at once liberate and imprison. It is a story of childhood as both Eden and anguish, and of growing up as a journey toward the difficult life of the free.
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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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Conway, Jill Ker (Editor) Written by Herself: Autobiographies of American Women An Anthology
New York, New York, U.S.A. Vintage Books 1992 0679736336 / 9780679736332 Trade Paperback Very Good + No Jacket
Very-nice copy - No writing or marks - No tears - Tight spine - 672 pages - The autobiographies in this collection are by women of extraordinary achievement--some well known, some neglected through the generations--who overcame daunting obstacles to pursue their individual destinies in an often hostile, changing America. The narratives, chosen and edited by historian Conway, a former president of Smith College, are grouped into the areas of freedom-fighting, science, arts and letters, and social reform. Among the women relaying their encounters with discrimination are Marian Anderson, preeminent black contralto, who was celebrated in Europe but barred from appearing at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C., and Margaret Mead, the renowned anthropologist, who refused a ``safe'' field assignment and forged her own way in Samoa. Many, like writer Zora Neale Hurston, emerged from broken or impoverished families to pursue an education and find a way to support themselves and their families. The strong, clear voices of the trailblazers found in this exemplary anthology reveal a sheer delight in excellence, adventure, and intellectual challenge.
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