Virginia's Apple: Collected Memoirs
Autor Judith Barringtonen Limba Engleză Paperback – oct 2024
The content is wide-ranging: the early days of the Second Wave of feminism—the exhilaration, the wildness, the love affairs, the surprises, and the self-invention, as well as the confusion and conflicts of those heady times; navigating a sometimes precarious existence as an out lesbian long before it was commonplace; leaving England and becoming an American citizen; finding a life partner; and growing old with an inherited disability. The author’s friendship with the distinguished poet Adrienne Rich is the subject of one story. In another, there’s an appearance by the notorious murderer, Lord Lucan, whose wife was a chance acquaintance.
These stories are laced with humor and joy, while pulsing below the surface is the slow unfolding of delayed grief over her parents’ drowning when she was nineteen, revealing how such a loss can shape a life.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781962645225
ISBN-10: 1962645223
Pagini: 234
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Oregon State University Press
Colecția Oregon State University Press
ISBN-10: 1962645223
Pagini: 234
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Oregon State University Press
Colecția Oregon State University Press
Recenzii
“When we are able to move fluidly through the past, present, and future by looking back on a life I believe we become new creatures in our own lives. Judith Barrington's brilliant collection of linked life stories, Virginia's Apple, is a thrilling book that pulls memories through creative visionary transmography. I felt like I was swimming inside the imagination of all the brilliant women who came before me who have kept me alive, and all the women who are coming after us. With poetic and erotic power, this book helped me remember to keep going as long as it takes for change to emerge. What a triumph. I feel gratitude.” –Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Chronology of Water and Thrust
“I seldom cry over a book but Virginia's Apple has moved me in many ways. the elegant, metaphor-rich language, the exquisite memory of detail, and the poignancy of Judith Barrington’s story—all very gripping—make this a powerful read. Then, her pursuit of lesbian activism and community building in both England and the US, as well as her sleuthing of lesbian literary history is so valuable, and all the more so because of the personal way she interacts with the writers, living and dead. This is more than a memoir, it is a history of an era and of the characters who set out to change society and in many ways, dare we say, succeeded.”—Judy Grahn
"Whether describing a broken-down house crowded with a gaggle of young feminists, an apple tree in the backyard of Virginia Woolf, or a late night sharing drinks and stories with Adrienne Rich, Barrington treats each moment with delicate care, wide-eyed wonder, and endearing humility." —Sarah Evans, Hippocampus Magazine
"Barrington’s use of language is figurative, reflective, and forthright, skillfully combining a poet’s guileless honesty and vulnerability, often culminating in compassionate introspection. Her stories possess glimmers of British reserve from someone raised among the middle class, but Barrington also shines a light revealing a fearless determination to emerge from the comfort zones of her family’s and society’s expectations." —Marie-Elise Wheatwind, CALYX
"Virginia’s Apple is a captivating story, made all the more intriguing by its roots in actual events. There is a subtlety in the telling that leaves no doubt of honesty in the reader’s mind, and while each piece is filled with life lessons and anecdotes, they are not overt — and left for the reader to deliciously decipher." —Amy Leona Havin, Oregon ArtsWatch
“I seldom cry over a book but Virginia's Apple has moved me in many ways. the elegant, metaphor-rich language, the exquisite memory of detail, and the poignancy of Judith Barrington’s story—all very gripping—make this a powerful read. Then, her pursuit of lesbian activism and community building in both England and the US, as well as her sleuthing of lesbian literary history is so valuable, and all the more so because of the personal way she interacts with the writers, living and dead. This is more than a memoir, it is a history of an era and of the characters who set out to change society and in many ways, dare we say, succeeded.”—Judy Grahn
"Whether describing a broken-down house crowded with a gaggle of young feminists, an apple tree in the backyard of Virginia Woolf, or a late night sharing drinks and stories with Adrienne Rich, Barrington treats each moment with delicate care, wide-eyed wonder, and endearing humility." —Sarah Evans, Hippocampus Magazine
"Barrington’s use of language is figurative, reflective, and forthright, skillfully combining a poet’s guileless honesty and vulnerability, often culminating in compassionate introspection. Her stories possess glimmers of British reserve from someone raised among the middle class, but Barrington also shines a light revealing a fearless determination to emerge from the comfort zones of her family’s and society’s expectations." —Marie-Elise Wheatwind, CALYX
"Virginia’s Apple is a captivating story, made all the more intriguing by its roots in actual events. There is a subtlety in the telling that leaves no doubt of honesty in the reader’s mind, and while each piece is filled with life lessons and anecdotes, they are not overt — and left for the reader to deliciously decipher." —Amy Leona Havin, Oregon ArtsWatch
Notă biografică
Judith Barrington’s Lifesaving: A Memoir was the winner of the Lambda Literary Award and a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir. Memoirs in this collection were included in Creative Nonfiction’s “Favorite Prizewinning Essays” and as Notable Literary Nonfiction in Best American Essays. Barrington is also the author of the bestselling Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
Descriere
The fourteen literary memoirs collected in Virginia’s Apple explore pivotal episodes across poet and writer Judith Barrington’s life. Artfully crafted, each one stands alone yet they are linked—characters reappear and, taken together, the pieces create a larger narrative.