Little Boy Blues - 9780307377722
Un libro in lingua di Malcolm Jones edito da Random House Inc, 2010
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From one of our most astute cultural observers, a piercing memoir about a family's breakup and the need simultaneously to embrace and distance ourselves from the people and events that shape us.
North Carolina in the 1950s and 1960s: A child surrounded mostly by grandparents, aunts, and uncles born in the previous century, Malcolm Jones finds himself underfoot in a disintegrating marriage. His father is charming but careless about steady work, often gone from home and often drunk. His mother, a schoolteacher and faded Southern belle, clings to the past while hungering for respectability and stability. Jones vividly describes their faltering marriage as it plays out against larger cracks in society: the convulsions of desegregation and a popular culture that threatens the church-centered life of his family. He also recalls idyllic times and the ordinary, easy moments of an otherwise fraught childhood: discovering an old Victrola, attending a marionette show—experiences that offer a portal to other worlds.
Richly evoking a time and place with rare depth of feeling and a penetrating, often bittersweet candor, Malcolm Jones gives us the fundamental stories of a life—where he comes from, who he was, who he has become.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Little Boy Blues
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Malcolm Jones
- Editore: Random House Inc
- Collana: Random House Inc (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 12 Gennaio '10
- Genere: BIOGRAPHY and AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- Argomenti : Journalists United States Biography
- Pagine: 228
- Peso gr: 430
- Dimensioni mm: 215 x 146 x 31
- ISBN-10: 0307377725
- EAN-13: 9780307377722