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Sto caricando le informazioni... An Incredible Talent for Existingdi Pamela Jane
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It is 1965, the era of love, light-and revolution. While the romantic narrator imagines a bucolic future in an old country house with children running through the dappled sunlight, her husband plots to organize a revolution and fight a guerrilla war in the Catskills. Their fantasies are on a collision course. The clash of visions turns into an inner war of identities when the author embraces radical feminism; she and her husband are comrades in revolution but combatants in marriage; she is a woman warrior who spends her days sewing long silk dresses reminiscent of a Henry James novel. One half of her isn't speaking to the other half. And then, just when it seems that things cannot possibly get more explosive, her wilderness cabin burns down and Pamela finds herself left with only the clothes on her back. From her vividly evoked existential childhood ("the only way I would know for sure that I existed was if others-lots of others-acknowledged it") to writing her first children's book on a sugar high during a glucose tolerance test, Pamela Jane takes the reader along on a highly entertaining personal, political, and psychological adventure. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Jane’s dream of settling into an old country home while her children run free clashes with her husband’s revolutionary ideas. Through political, psychological and personal lenses, Jane explores her identity as a woman and a wife. The story she is living conflicts with the story of her dreams.
Fascinated by story from her childhood, Jane imagines herself in every story she reads. She invites us into her parents’ troubled marriage—a mentally-ill mother and a distant father-- from her child’s point of view, thereby setting the stage for her teenage rebellion during the tumultuous 60s. Throughout it all, she escapes into her books in search of her own story.
Through vivid imagery and honest prose, Jane captures the political unrest of the 60s as well as the intimate details of her life. Her writing is captivating, flowing seamlessly through inner and outer dialogue, easily relatable by any contemporary. Her descriptions of settings are stunning and brought me right into her scenes. Her characters, as well as the events of the time, are alive on the page.
As a young woman of the 60s, I connected deeply to this story, even though my experience was different. It is this shared connection that makes this memoir so compelling. It is also a source of enlightenment for those of different generations as it captures the essence of the 60s and one woman’s intimate and honest response to her times.
I highly recommend this beautifully-written and powerful memoir. (