Alix Shulman

Burning Questions

A Novel

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A provocative coming-of-age chronicle of the Women's Liberation Movement, as seen through the eyes of a young woman who flees midwestern suburban life to find her true self in 1950s New York City Eighteen-year-old Zane IndiAnna feels trapped by life in her small midwestern town. So she sets out for New York, landing in Greenwich Village during the revolutionary days of Allen Ginsburg and Jack Kerouac. Zane's story of rebellious political awakening plays out over the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, mirroring the rise of the Women's Liberation Movement and bringing the evolution of American feminism to vivid life. Stirring and unforgettable, Burning Qu… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Shulman, Alix Kates

ISBN: 978-1-4532-3839-4
EAN: 9781453238394
Produktnummer: 31910420
Verlag: Open Road Media
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 374 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'382 KB

Über den Autor

Alix Kates Shulman (b. 1932) is the celebrated author of fourteen books, including the New York Times bestselling novel Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen (1972), which established her as a primary figure in feminism's second wave. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Shulman studied philosophy at Columbia University and received an MA at New York University. She became a political activist, joining the Congress of Racial Equality in 1961 and the Women's Liberation Movement in 1967. Her other novels include Burning Questions (1978), On the Stroll (1981), In Every Woman's Life . . . (1987), and Ménage (2012). She has also written the memoirs Drinking the Rain (1995), A Good Enough Daughter (1999), and To Love What Is (2008);a biography of Emma Goldman entitled To the Barricades (1971); and A Marriage Agreement and Other Essays: Four Decades of Feminist Writing (2012). Shulman lives in Manhattan and continues to speak frequently on issues such as writing, feminism, and reproductive choice.