Defending Happiness & Other Acts of Bravery
Autor Amy Sheaen Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 aug 2012
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780983124702
ISBN-10: 0983124701
Pagini: 130
Dimensiuni: 153 x 231 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Danzatore Publishing
ISBN-10: 0983124701
Pagini: 130
Dimensiuni: 153 x 231 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Editura: Danzatore Publishing
Recenzii
Defending Happiness, and Other Acts of Bravery is a book about fighting for your bliss. The collection of stories demonstrates how one woman faced off with breast cancer, online dating, and motherhood, using audacity and wit to not only survive, but repea
In these 12 short stories, or what might be called essays, Albuquerque's Amy Shea shares her insights, her independence and her contagious love of life. Shea's candor and her original views on personal relationships and issues infuse every page. Hers is a writing style in which one paragraph takes on a subject and sometimes by the subsequent one it has shifted effortlessly. In between Shea may drop in phrases of humorous analogies. A good example hits you in the opening story, "Aging Expensively." Shea describes a weekly trip to Target with her grandson. On this trip, they're off to buy him a companion for his toy gel frog and to get her "stuff." The trip includes "Chicken McNuggets and a game of Barrel of Monkeys, during which my grandson cheated like an investment banker." The grandson picks a frog but only after she gives him "a highly tangential lecture about genetics and why creationism should never be taught in schools." In phrases and even whole sentences, Shea's story "Uncommon Grounds" covers acres of subjects - a phone call from the author's mother that lacks a narrative thread; a discussion by the author on getting "the petite genes" from her father's side of the family; a recollection of the author at age 12 "waiting for breasts, height or the childbearing hips my mother had put to use seven times and counting"; the author being married long enough "to duplicate myself twice"; her grandmother, "who lived to age 97 and died of a broken hip suffered on an unauthorized field trip from a nursing home to get an egg-cream soda." The story ironically titled "Cancer Gift" reflects on the anticipation of serious announcements, on talking about cancer and how having it is not easily explained, and on the matter of mortality. "I have cancer to thank for pointing out that this is a limited engagement, though as a strategy I would not recommend it," Shea writes. So you see Shea will make you think, make you laugh, make you appreciate her imagination as she weaves the
In these 12 short stories, or what might be called essays, Albuquerque's Amy Shea shares her insights, her independence and her contagious love of life. Shea's candor and her original views on personal relationships and issues infuse every page. Hers is a writing style in which one paragraph takes on a subject and sometimes by the subsequent one it has shifted effortlessly. In between Shea may drop in phrases of humorous analogies. A good example hits you in the opening story, "Aging Expensively." Shea describes a weekly trip to Target with her grandson. On this trip, they're off to buy him a companion for his toy gel frog and to get her "stuff." The trip includes "Chicken McNuggets and a game of Barrel of Monkeys, during which my grandson cheated like an investment banker." The grandson picks a frog but only after she gives him "a highly tangential lecture about genetics and why creationism should never be taught in schools." In phrases and even whole sentences, Shea's story "Uncommon Grounds" covers acres of subjects - a phone call from the author's mother that lacks a narrative thread; a discussion by the author on getting "the petite genes" from her father's side of the family; a recollection of the author at age 12 "waiting for breasts, height or the childbearing hips my mother had put to use seven times and counting"; the author being married long enough "to duplicate myself twice"; her grandmother, "who lived to age 97 and died of a broken hip suffered on an unauthorized field trip from a nursing home to get an egg-cream soda." The story ironically titled "Cancer Gift" reflects on the anticipation of serious announcements, on talking about cancer and how having it is not easily explained, and on the matter of mortality. "I have cancer to thank for pointing out that this is a limited engagement, though as a strategy I would not recommend it," Shea writes. So you see Shea will make you think, make you laugh, make you appreciate her imagination as she weaves the
Cuprins
List of Illustrations 9 Introduction 11 Stephen Levine WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH 1 What if Germany had destroyed the British navy at the Battle of Jutland in 1916? 232 What if a poet had taken us out of the Great War? 39 3 What if New Zealand had come under Nazi occupation? 594 What if Winston Churchill had visited New Zealand? 775 What if New Zealand troops had not fought in Vietnam? 93WRITERS AND THEIR WORK 6 What if Katherine Mansfield had returned to New Zealand? 1137 What if Samuel Butler had not left New Zealand? 133 8 What if Bill Pearsons novel Coal Flat had kept its homosexual themes? 151MAORI AND THE STATE 9 What if Hone Heke had won the war against the British in the mid-1840s? 17110 What if Governor Grey had not ordered the invasion of the Waikato in July 1863? 183 11 What if the Foreshore and Seabed Act 2004 had never been passed? 199GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS 12 What if the Great Storm of 1862 had sunk the Cabinet? 21313 What if there had never been a Moyle affair? 233 14 What if New Zealand had reintroduced an upper house? 25315 What if New Zealand had not adopted MMP? 271 LEADING THE WORLD 16 What if women had not won the vote in 1893? 295 17 What if Edmund Hillary had never climbed Mount Everest? 311Epilogue 327 Notes 339 Acknowledgements 379 List of Contributors 383 Appendix Introducing 17 Scenarios: 391 What Really Happened ...