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Sto caricando le informazioni... Two or Three Things I Know for Sure (1995)di Dorothy Allison
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 Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro.  overlycriticalelisa | Jul 11, 2022 |   "Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is what it means to have no loved version of your life but the one you make." "Two or three things I know for sure and one of them is that telling the story all the way through is an act of love." (  ) overlycriticalelisa | Feb 17, 2017 |  ) AntT | Jan 24, 2015 | ) AntT | Jan 24, 2015 | Musing on the fate and demands upon the girls and women in her family: "Beauty is a hard thing. Beauty is a mean story. Beauty is slender girls who die young, fine-featured delicate creatures about whom men write poems. Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time. And I loved her for that." And "The women I loved most in the world horrified me. I did not want to grow up to be them. I made myself proud of their pride, their determination, their stubbornness, but every night I prayed a man's prayer: Lord, save me from them. Do not let me become them." And later, exploring the impact of the childhood rape and her efforts to transcend what this necessarily taught her about herself, her determination to define her own place in the world: "Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I would rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me." At moments poetic, certainly not linear, this memoir also lets the reader into deep sibling rivalries and adoration. Beautiful. (  )2  EBT1002 | Jan 24, 2014 | nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Bastard Out of Carolina, nominated for the 1992 National Book Award for fiction, introduced Dorothy Allison as one of the most passionate and gifted writers of her generation. Now, in Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, she takes a probing look at her family's history to give us a lyrical, complex memoir that explores how the gossip of one generation can become legends for the next. Illustrated with photographs from the author's personal collection, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure tells the story of the Gibson women -- sisters, cousins, daughters, and aunts -- and the men who loved them, often abused them, and, nonetheless, shared their destinies. With luminous clarity, Allison explores how desire surprises and what power feels like to a young girl as she confronts abuse. As always, Dorothy Allison is provocative, confrontational, and brutally honest. Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, steeped in the hard-won wisdom of experience, expresses the strength of her unique vision with beauty and eloquence. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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5 stars.
from 2017:
wow. so i don't like everything dorothy allison has ever done, but when i do like it, holy fuck i love it. this is beautiful and raw and real and honest and tearing and still beautiful. it's an incredible statement and i cried and soared all the way through it.
"Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is what it means to have no loved version of your life but the one you make."
"Two or three things I know for sure and one of them is that telling the story all the way through is an act of love." (5 stars) (