Emily Fox Gordon

Book of Days

Personal Essays

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The sexual politics of a faculty wives dinner. The psychological gamesmanship of an inappropriate therapist. The emotional minefield of an extended family wedding . . . Whatever the subject, Emily Fox Gordon's disarmingly personal essays are an art form unto themselves-reflecting and revealing, like mirrors in a maze, the seemingly endless ways a woman can lose herself in the modern world. With piercing humor and merciless precision, Gordon zigzags her way through the unevolved paradise of academia, with its dying breeds of bohemians, adulterers, and flirts, then stumbles through the perils and pleasures of psychotherapy, hoping to find a na… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Lopate, Phillip

ISBN: 978-0-385-52589-3
EAN: 9780385525893
Produktnummer: 7274592
Verlag: Random House N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 320 S.

Über den Autor

Emily Fox Gordon is an award-winning essayist and the author of the novel It will Come to Me, and two memoirs, Mockingbird Years: A Life In and Out of Therapy and Are you Happy?: A Childhood Remembered. Her work had appeared in American Scholar, Time, Pushcart Prize Anthology XXIII and XXIX, the New York Times Book Review, Boulevard, and Salmagundi. She lives in Houston.