Space: A Memoir
Autor Jesse Lee Kerchevalen Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 iul 2014
Jesse Lee Kercheval opens her story in Cocoa, Florida, in 1966 as a precocious ten-year-old whose family—father, mother, two little girls—is trying to ride the Space Race’s tide of optimism. But even as the rockets keep going up, the Kercheval family slowly spirals down.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780299300241
ISBN-10: 0299300242
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: 1 b-w photo
Dimensiuni: 127 x 178 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN-10: 0299300242
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: 1 b-w photo
Dimensiuni: 127 x 178 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press
Recenzii
“A sweetly honest memoir of a girl growing up amid the glare of the rocket launches from Cape Canaveral. . . . [A] coming-of-age story, but punctuated by the romance and thunder of rockets entering space.”—Kirkus Reviews
“An incandescent girlhood memoir. . . . So lyrical and poignant are the events it chronicles, it is hard to believe that it wasn't all by design.”—Booklist (starred review)
“A devastatingly honest, relentlessly unsentimental portrait of [the author’s] childhood. . . . A quietly powerful personal history.”—Jacqueline Boone, New York Times Book Review
“A story of the 1960s and 1970s as seen through the eyes of a bright and introspective girl.”—School Library Journal
Notă biografică
Jesse Lee Kercheval was born in France and raised in Florida. She is the author of thirteen books of poetry, fiction, and memoir including the novels The Museum of Happiness and My Life as a Silent Movie and the writing text Building Fiction. The Sally Mead Hands Professor of English, she teaches creative writing at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Descriere
Looking back at a time when America was on the brink of all the big changes coming by way of Apollo 11, The Feminine Mystique, and the Vietnam War, this high-spirited memoir focuses on what it was like back then—for a girl.