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New York: Simon & Schuster. New in Near Fine dust jacket. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Arresting prose and a provocative conclusion - challenging the idea that our destinies are fundamentally linked to race - distinguish this remarkable memoir of growing up black in the American Midwest in the turbulent 1950s and 1960s. Set in an Ohio steel town and an exclusive, upstate New York private university, Dancing with Strangers is an evocative remembrance of an American's coming of age during the decade preceding the sixties' revolutionary transformation of American society. A dramatic, novelistically rendered account, it is the story of an individual's triumphant struggle for personal identity during an era when conformity, class, race, and political xenophobia dominated the American landscape. There is an approximate 1" narrow black remainder mark on the bottom of the book. 320 pages. The jacket has a tiny tear at the spine bottom. 8vo - over 7¾" -…
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Dancing with Strangers: a Memoir
by Watkins, Mel
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Eating Children: with an Unfinished Memoir Frightening People
by Tweedle, Jill
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Penguin Books. Fine with no dust jacket. 1994. Softcover. Cover is fine, front cover has a picture of the author with a baby seen through maple leaves. The unfinished memoir is fragmented since it was not finished when the author died in 1993. The book includes photographs. 404 pages, 5" x 775" high. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. .
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Jew Boy : a Memoir
by Kaufman, Alan
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New York, Ny, U. S. A.: Fromm International Publishing Corporation. New in New dust jacket. 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Kaufman's coming-of-age account is by turns hilarious and terrifying, written with irrevernt humor and poetic introspection. His authentically American voice, with its headlong energy, joy, and sensitivity, calls to mind the best of Jack Kerouc and Henry Miller. Jew Boy touches on themes rarely explored in American writing - the pain, guilt, and comfusion of American-born children of Holocaust survivors. The binding is cloth; the jacket is somewhat scuffed. 402 pages, includes a poem separately published. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. .
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A Monk Swimming: a Memoir
by McCourt, Malachy
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Boston, Massachusetts, U. S. A.: Hyperion Books. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1998. Eighth Printing. Softcover. Malachy McCourt, brother of Frank McCourt (Angela's Ashes, 'Tis) has written this memoir telling his own story of leaving his childhood of poverty in Limerick, Ireland, and heading for the promise of America. Armed with a wild humor and gift for storytelling, he ran from memories of a drunken, vanished father and the humiliations of Angela, his mother. He carved a place for himself in New York as the first celebrity bartender; on stage, performing works of James Joyce, and on television, where the tales he spun made him a Tonight Show regular. Darkly funny, shockingly raw, and everywhere making the English language do tricks the British never intended, Malachy McCourt, a true original, tells his story with passion, wit, irreverence, and charm. 290 pages; the very bottom right corner is turned up a bit. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. .
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A Monk Swimming: a Memoir
by McCourt, Malachy
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Boston, Massachusetts, U. S. A.: Hyperion Books. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1998. Eighth Printing. Softcover. Malachy McCourt, brother of Frank McCourt (Angela's Ashes, 'Tis) has written this memoir telling his own story of leaving his childhood of poverty in Limerick, Ireland, and heading for the promise of America. Armed with a wild humor and gift for storytelling, he ran from memories of a drunken, vanished father and the humiliations of Angela, his mother. He carved a place for himself in New York as the first celebrity bartender; on stage, performing works of James Joyce, and on television, where the tales he spun made him a Tonight Show regular. Darkly funny, shockingly raw, and everywhere making the English language do tricks the British never intended, Malachy McCourt, a true original, tells his story with passion, wit, irreverence, and charm. 290 pages; the very bottom right corner is turned up a bit. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. .
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Nothing is Impossible: Reflections on a New Life
by Reeve, Christopher
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Westminster, Maryland, U. S. A.: Random House Inc. New in New dust jacket. 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Second Printing. Christopher Reeve mastered the art of turning the impossible into the inevitable. He shows that we are all capable of overcoming seemingly insurmountable hardships. He interweaves anecdotes from hiw own life with excerpts from speeches and interviews he's given and with evocative photos taken by his son Matthew. Published on the eve of both his fiftieth birthday and the seventh anniversary of his spinal cord injury, this volume reminds us that life is not to be taken for granted, but to be lived fully with zeal, curiousity, and gratitude. That is a powerful message in itself, but it is the messenger who gives it its full resonance. 177 pages. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. .
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