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Sto caricando le informazioni... Space (1998)di Jesse Lee Kercheval
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. With remarkable detail, Kercheval (The Museum of Happiness, LJ 10/15/93) writes of growing up in Florida near Cape Kennedy. The rumble of rockets punctuates her encounters with boys, alcohol and other drugs, prejudice, a mother on valium, friendships, and other facets of life. In school she sees a film called The Wonderful Thing That Is Going To Happen to You Once a Month, and at the Cape she sees "Gus Grissom's sad dog-brown eyes" shortly before Grissom is killed. Her family slowly disintegrates, much like the space program, but just as man reaches the moon, she and her sister survive. The space program appears only as a thematic device?this is a lively coming-of-age tale, the creation of a personal space. Eventually Kercheval discovers that her childhood penchant for lying could turn a profit?she became a successful writer and professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her memoir will be of interest to public and academic libraries.?Nancy P. Shires, East Carolina Univ., Greenville, N.C. Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. (Library Journal) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Jesse Lee Kercheval opens her story in Cocoa, Florida, in 1966 as a precocious ten-year-old whose family father, mother, two little girls is trying to ride the Space Race s tide of optimism. But even as the rockets keep going up, the Kercheval family slowly spirals down." Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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Kercheval writes about growing up in central Florida in the 1960's, in the shadow of NASA's race to the moon. It's doesn't help that her parents have their own problems and her mother disappears more and more while Kercheval and her older sister make their way through grade school and puberty and all that. As a memoir, it's sad and wonderful. Here is an excerpt from after her first and late discovery of what sex is:
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