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Speaking with Strangers
The concluding volume in Mary Cantwell's autobiographical trilogy finds her newly divorced and ready to escape life in New York and the demands of single parenthood. Traveling on assignment to some of the remotest and least glamorous corners of the globe, Cantwell is scared, lonely, and depressed -- and she vows never to leave her children again if God will just get her ou...more
Paperback, 160 pages
Published
July 1st 1999
by Penguin Books
(first published 1998)
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When I was a young teenager, I read the magazines that Mary Cantwell edited and wrote for -- Glamour, Mademoiselle, Seventeen, etc. I thought she must be a glamourous mademoiselle indeed. Studying magazines was a way for a pre-teen in the 1960s to look inside the career culture now displayed on Mad Men and other retro tv programs and films.
This memoir offers a view of a serially insecure and conflicted woman who depends on a spouse (they divorce), a famous Southern rustic author-lover (he dies),...more
This memoir offers a view of a serially insecure and conflicted woman who depends on a spouse (they divorce), a famous Southern rustic author-lover (he dies),...more
Ah Mary, we hardly knew ye! This third part of her trilogy of memories is focused on the travels in her life. Travels and travails. It is a tribute to the art of writing that a person who chronicles her remote nature reveals her most private, inner thoughts and motivations through it.The last chapter, Nine, is to be re-read, re-read, and treasured.
Did Mary Cantwell know that her life transcribed reads like a progression of history? She touches on feminism, the unraveling of *polite* society in...more
Did Mary Cantwell know that her life transcribed reads like a progression of history? She touches on feminism, the unraveling of *polite* society in...more
The photo of Mary Cantwell on the dust jacket says it all - she looks grim, angry, and humorless - just like this memoir.
It is amazing what one will come across at Half-Price Books! Inspiration is hidden among titles and authors unknown to me, waiting to be randomly selected . . . this book is small, but may be the heaviest, most honest memoir I have ever encountered. Besides inspiration, the author afforded a mirror into my own soul -- what more can one ask for?
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