What It's Like to Live Now
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.68 (682 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0553096001 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 338 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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From Publishers Weekly Forty-something Maran has been, among other things, a political activist, labor leader, freelance journalist, copywriter, wife, cohabitor with a longtime female lover and mother. Often reading like a good novel, her book is filled with detailed explorations of the significant moments of daily life and is primarily concerned with untangling the complex dynamics of relationships. . Here she turns her personal history into an absorbing meditation on the joys and frustrations of modern life. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. Intensely personal, the book still delivers on its promise of a more generalized account of modern life. Maran's rigorous self-scrutiny, painstaking analysis of the important decisions she has made and lyrical accounts of various epiphanies and connections invite readers to reflect upon their own choices, desires and aspirations
Fairbanks Reader - Bonnie Brody said A Fascinating Memoir by an ex-60's Radical. This is a fascinating memoir of an ex-60's radical woman who hasdone and seen everything. She is candid about her years of thera-py, committed but often discord-ridden lesbian relationship, self-doubts about parenting and struggles with political and socialconsciousness.She takes herself seriously and does not try to be light. It changes my life. I read What It's Like To Live Now 2.5 years ago. I read it twice and some parts three times.That time I was confused with my affectional orientation and wanted to know what gay and lesbians are like. I read books of social science research, gay Christian prayers, hate crime reporting, gay marriage, ethics and more.This is the. Insightful look at what it takes to make a family A Customer Humorous look at life in the 90s from the point of view of a divorced mother trying to raise a family with her lover. Her insight was touching. At times she seemed a little self absorbed, but isn't that what autobiographies are all about. She has a story to tell and does it well. I eagerly await her next book.
Reading What It's Like To Live Now is like having dinner with your funniest, most unshockable woman friend. In 1968 Meredith Maran was expelled from her prestigious New York high school for leading anti-war protests. You won't want it to end.From the Trade Paperback edition.. Nearly thirty years later, with an ex-husband, two teenage sons, a female lover, and a mortgaged dream house on the edge of the Oakland ghetto, she's still trying to change the world but this time it's personal.In What It's Like To Live Now, Meredith Maran explores the gap between the dreams of the '60s and the realities of the '90s, in a book filled with uncommon insight--and her own wickedly