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  <title><![CDATA[How I Became Hettie Jones]]></title>
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  <default_description>Jones' atmospheric prose brings the Beat era to life with more gusto than any previous memoir, thanks to homely details like eating potato pancakes at the Second Avenue Deli and wearing Ukrainian scarves and black tights. She looks back on her marriage to LeRoi Jones with tenderness, even as she delineates the cultural forces that eventually ripped them apart. Famous friends like Allen Ginsberg make appearances, but Jones' focus is on family (her two daughters are lovingly described) and individual growth. Evocative and touching.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_day type="integer">6</original_publication_day>
  <original_publication_month type="integer">12</original_publication_month>
  <original_publication_year type="integer">1996</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>How I Became Hettie Jones</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Hettie Jones]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;But then I feel a chill on my arm, and now we've come to the reading of sins. I look down at the machzor for ones that apply to me. Here's one for arrogant mien, one for haughty eyes, for obdurate brow, I beg forgiveness. For the sin of breaking off the yoke, v'al kulom eloha slichos - yes, th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11628049">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This memoir has great poise and beautiful style.  Wife of LeRoi Jones during the Beat Generation, Hettie was obviously able to hold her own and create a niche for herself among the turbulence of the times.  It's interesting to note the parallel struggle occurring...a Jewish, white girl (dealing with...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21673383">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Sep 30 04:37:00 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Sep 30 04:45:03 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, this is a must read for memoir lovers such as myself. Also for anyone who grew up in the 1950's-1960's and still remembers it. This book takes the reader back to the heydey of downtown New York City. The beats, the hippies, the radicals, the intellectuals and all others searching for America i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7024395">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the great memoir of Hettie Jones (obviously), who was the wife of famous beat poet Roi Jones, who is now known as Amiri Baraka. She tells the story of her life as an unconventional woman during the 50s and 60s, struggling to find her place and role in the world in New York City during the Be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16549703">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jones writes as if she is speaking to an intimate friend -- one of the best memoirs I have read. She speaks not only of her struggle to 'become' amid personal obstacles, but that of a woman's in an age where women were not supposed to socially and/or politically 'become' or have free will. Though mu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24221866">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1996</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[this is my favorite memoir from the beat generation. it's sweet and thoughtful and clever and touching. hettie jones was an acute observer of the male-dominated beat culture. relegated to the sidelines by the narcissistic beats, jones proves she is a writer in her own regard, with a voice she desper...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6279624">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[For anyone who agrees the Beats were self-worshipping, male-oriented intellectual bullies...who also created some brilliant moments of subversion and forward-thinking.  Hettie Jones is and was a writer revealing that these moments don't just come from boys.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this isn't as good as the diane di prima book, but in case you needed more autobiographical material from white women who slept with amiri baraka: now it's yours!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fascinating memoir on Hettie's beatnik-period life &amp; times. Well written &amp; sometimes alarming insights into gender and racial politics among the hipsters of old. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1990</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like Minor Characters by Joyce Johnson, this gives a rare female perspective on the Beats.  Two great books by two badass women.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[so good for a girl who loved the beats but hated the dude-centricity of it.  hettie jones is smart.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great read about an interracial marriage in the 50s-60s.  ]]></body>
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