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Johnny's Girl: A Daughter's Memoir of Growing Up I de Kim Rich

Johnny's Girl: A Daughter's Memoir of Growing Up I

Autor Kim Rich
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 1999
Johnny's Girl the nationally acclaimed memoir of growing up in Alaska's underworld as the only child of gambler John F. ?Johnny? Rich and exotic dancer, Frances ?Ginger? Rich. It chronicles Alaska's mean streets and her parent's tragic lives that were cut short.

Kim Rich was an ordinary girl trapped in an extraordinary childhood, someone who dreamed of going to parties and getting good grades while living in an after-hours hell of gamblers, pimps, and con men. She longed for normalcy, yet she was inescapably her father's child, and she had no choice but to grow up fast. Her mother, who suffered from mental illness, was a stripper and B-girl: her father was a major player in the underworld of Anchorage, Alaska in the sixties, a city flush with newfound oil money. Only after her father was gruesomely murdered when she was 15, and Kim became a journalist, was she able to fill in the missing pieces of one American dream gone horribly wrong. Kim's true story is a tale of a woman's search for her parent's secrets. What she finds is both shocking and tragic, but in the end she's able to discover her true self amid the remnants of her parents' lost lives.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780882405247
ISBN-10: 0882405241
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 30
Dimensiuni: 137 x 212 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: ALASKA NORTHWEST BOOKS

Recenzii

“This memoir poses the question, ‘Which offenses from our childhood are forgivable and which ones are not?’ [Rich’s] book is…the story of a gutsy child’s survival, the kind that should go straight to the heart.” 
---New York Times Book Review

“Rich does an amazing job of searching out legal and hospital records, plus letters and diaries of her dead parents, and of interviewing cops, lawyers, former B-girls, and family members,---all in a effort to lay to rest the ghosts within her…Compelling.”         ---Kirkus Review

“Some books in the true crime genre transcend the formula, and JOHNNY’S GIRL does just that.”
                                                       --- Los Angeles Times Book Review

"The grittiest, most memorable Alaskan story I've ever read. An evocative and deeply moving memoir of a most unusual family."
                                                        --- Joe McGinniss, author of Fatal Vision

Notă biografică

Born in Hollywood, raised in Anchorage, Alaska, Kim Rich has an MFA degree in writing from Columbia University, and has taught at Alaska Pacific University. She now lives in the lower 48, outside of Alaska. A Normal Life is the follow-up to her critically acclaimed memoir, Johnny's Girl: A Daughter's Memoir of Growing Up In Alaska's Underworld.

Comentariile autorului

"I was my father's only child, raised amid the denizens of Anchorage's nightlife---pimps, con men, gamblers prostitutes, heroin addicts, strippers. I spent most nights home alone, staying close to the television for company while my father was out working the clubs. I saw firsthand the ravages of 'the life': It broke my mother's spirit and triggered her collapse into insanity. Cops and hoodlums beat down the door of our home in the middle of the night. My father taught me to be tough and fearless. He also taught me to speak my mind."    ----Page 14, Prologue, Johnny's Girl by Kim Rich

Extras

“Everyone here in the building would not condone our morals” was the first thing my father told the social worker who interviewed him the day after my mother had been hospitalized. …The interview, which took place before the earthquake at the state Division of Mental Health office downtown, was held to determine who would pay for my mother’s medical expenses. What my father had to say that day isn’t surprising to me.” Page 95, Shattered Dreams, Johnny’s Girl

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Kim Rich was an ordinary girl trapped in an extraordinary childhood, someone who dreamed of going to parties and getting good grades while living in an after-hours hell of pimps and con men. Kim Rich longed for normalcy, yet she was inescapably her father's child, and she had no choice but to grow up fast. Her mother was a stripper and B-girl: her father was a major player in the underworld of Anchorage, Alaska in the sixties, a city flush with newfound oil money.  Only after her father was gruesomely murdered and Kim became a journalist was she able to fill in the missing pieces of one American dream gone horribly wrong. Kim's true story is a tale of a woman's search for her parent's secrets. What she finds is both shocking and tragic, but in the end she's able to discover her true self amid the remnants of her parents' lost lives.