Amanda Stern
Autore di Little Panic: Dispatches from an Anxious Life
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Fonte dell'immagine: Amanda Stern (right)
at the National Book Awards 2006
(with National Book Foundation staffer Adah Nuchi)
Copyright © 2006 Ron Hogan
at the National Book Awards 2006
(with National Book Foundation staffer Adah Nuchi)
Copyright © 2006 Ron Hogan
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- Luogo di residenza
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Yaddo (Fellowship)
MacDowell (Philip Morris Company Fellowship) - Breve biografia
- Stern is the author of, The Long Haul by Soft Skull Press. She founded, in 2003, the popular, "Happy Ending Music and Reading Series," in NYC's Chinatown. She hosts and curates the bi-weekly events. A literary impresario of sorts, Stern was the host for the National Book Awards first ever, "5 Under 35," ceremony as well as the host for the premiere of PEN American Center's new literary series: PENultimate Lit at Southpaw.
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- Opere
- 3
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 119
- Popolarità
- #166,388
- Voto
- 4.5
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 9
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- 1
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Shifting between childhood and being an adult, Stern tells a story that is hard to read. As someone with an anxiety disorder myself, I found myself going “Yes, yes, that’s how it was growing up” frequently. She had it much harder than I, though; I was able to lose the anxiety for periods, where I’m not sure she ever could. As if she didn’t have enough things to fear as a child, a boy vanished from her neighborhood when she was young, proving that horrible things did, indeed, happen to kids. Her mother had some kind of chronic illness that kept her in bed a lot and required lots of bottles of pills, and her father was remote, so even though her step-father was fairly attentive and caring Amanda’s illness sort of stayed under the radar as long as she wasn’t in trouble at school. Intelligent and articulate, Amanda has been able to have a career as an author of children’s books, which was a relief to read, as I found myself wondering how someone this crippled with panic could hold a job!
Stern has a sense of humor that she looks at the past through, which makes her story a little easier to read than it could have been. I do think the story could have been edited down some- it does drag in some places. It is the details, though, that make her story come to life. I appreciated reading a book that illuminated a lot of the things I’ve gone through in my own life! Four stars.… (altro)