Deborah Baker (1) (1959–)

Autore di The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism

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Deborah Baker is the author of Making a Farm: The Life of Robert Bly; In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Biography; A Blue Hand: The Beats in India; and The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. mostra altro She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, and lives in India and New York. mostra meno

Opere di Deborah Baker

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The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism (2011) 132 copie

A Blue Hand: The Beats in India (2008) 129 copie

The Last Englishmen: Love, War, and the End of Empire (2018) 50 copie

In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding (1993) 29 copie

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Allen Ginsberg (5) Autobiografia (2) BAB (2) Beat (19) Beat generation (10) beat literature (2) beat poets (3) Biografia (31) Conversione (4) Critica letteraria (3) da leggere (24) Ebraismo (2) esploratori (2) Gary Snyder (2) Ginsberg (4) Goodreads (2) Impero britannico (2) India (16) Islam (9) john auden (2) Letteratura (3) letto nel 2011 (4) Memorie (5) michael spender (2) MM (2) Narrativa (2) nba-2011 (2) New York (stato) (2) NF (2) non letto (3) Novecento (6) Pakistan (4) Poesia (9) Politica (2) read in 2019 (2) Religione (8) Saggistica (23) Spiritualità (4) Storia (9) Viaggio (9)

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Informazioni generali

Data di nascita: 1959-03-28
Sesso: female
Nazionalità: USA
Luogo di nascita: Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Istruzione: University of Virginia
Cambridge University
Relazioni: Ghosh, Amitav (husband)

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The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism di Deborah Baker

adult nonfiction. I had a review here but goodreads jammed up and I lost it. pbbbt.

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reader1009 | 7 altre recensioni | Jul 3, 2021 |

The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism di Deborah Baker

While the letters written by Maryam were fascinating, the material between the letters was dragging.

I had just too many books out of the library and ran out of time. I will probably make another stab at this so am putting it back on the to-read shelf

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JLsBibliomania | 7 altre recensioni | Mar 31, 2013 |

The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism di Deborah Baker

This book was supposed to be reveal why and how Margaret “Peggy” Marcus, in the mid 1960”s chose Islam as her faith, Maryam Jameelah as her name, and left her Jewish faith and New York to move to Pakistan to live the ideal Muslim faith. There she authored a number of articles and books about how the West and its culture was wrong. The book is a collection of her letters home and background on the Mawlana Abul Ala Mawdudi who becomes her guardian and is one of the founders of militant political Islam – Taliban. However, we never discover the real reason for the conversion, and more shockingly learn that the author changed the content of the letters so they would be more easily read. Left with the feeling that this was a troubled, unstable woman only. Disappointing.… (altro)

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CarterPJ | 7 altre recensioni | Oct 21, 2011 |

The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism di Deborah Baker

http://purplemoonmyst.blogspot.com/2011/05/review-convert.html

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purplemoonstar | 7 altre recensioni | Jul 2, 2011 |

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