Subjects:  1. 1908-1977    2. 20th century    3. Authors, English    4. Biography    5. Biography / Autobiography    6. Childhood Memoir    7. Childhood and youth    8. Europe - France    9. Fedden, Robin,    10. France    11. Homes and haunts    12. Normandy    13. Travel    14. Biography: general    15. TRAVEL & HOLIDAY   

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Not Just for Hero Worshippers
It's easy to get caught up in the little details of our lives, getting kids off to school, getting the car (or dog) fixed, paying the mortgage, raking the leaves, and doing the thousand other things that we do, so much that we forget or never get the big picture.
Poignant and pleasant
Dubner's book had a special meaning to me when I read it.I had just come back from a trip where I met a childhood idol of mine.While the meeting was great, somehow I came home feeling a bit of emptiness.
Everybody Needs A Hero!
This book compares the Jewish view to that of Christians.With the Jewish ban on idolatry, there are no people -- only things and places in pictures.That's strange, as my photos are full of views, beautiful or unusual scenes and things of the past, but very few people.In the Bible, there are prophets in abundance, but in the New Testament, the pictures are most always a glorified Jesus and his apostles.A messiah is less a person than an idea, a hope, and the yearning for the world to have a happy ending.
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Subjects:  1. Baseball    2. Biography & Autobiography    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Biography/Autobiography    5. Childhood Memoir    6. General    7. Personal Memoirs    8. Biography & Autobiography / General   

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Comedy with a Dark Edge
They say a lot of the very best comedy comes out of tragedy, that people laugh so they don't cry. "Box of Moustaches" is a no holds barred revealing biography of a very funny and talented man I worked with on "Talk Soup". Whether he became funny in spite of the difficulties he dealt with growing up with his twin brother in a household with a crazy mother or whether these events shaped him and made him the amusing writer he is today as a way of dealing with trouble is a argument best made over a glass of cognac and cigars. The fact is this book is a very interesting read. Yes, there are many dark moments. But there are also some very funny moments that are exploited to their fullest comic extent. It's not your standard Bobsey Twins novel, that's for sure. No, this story is real. As in real good.
Box is chockful of nuts
I hate whiny "woe is me" books written by people who want emotional handouts.Give me an emotionally powerful yet funny journey and that's what you get with "Box of Mustaches".Not only can read about his mom Nutty Nora but other characters like Eldy and the Gas-O-Mat and "Crisco Marie".Mr. Evans writes books like Ray Davies writes songs. Dickens would have given his last beer to write like this.

A hilarious look at a sad childhood
There is no question that the childhood of Stan Evans and his twin brother was by today's standards completely dysfunctional and often abusive.Life with a certifiable mother can never be easy, but the author manages to find humor in even the most heartbreaking situations.Told with mattter of fact candor and plenty of laughs this is one memoir on the dysfunctional childhood that looks for no pity. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography & Autobiography    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. Biography/Autobiography    4. Childhood Memoir    5. Dysfunctional Families    6. Mental Illness    7. Personal Growth - General    8. Personal Memoirs    9. Clinical psychology    10. Marriage, family & other relationships   

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This book is stunning and awesomely written !
Charles Carrol is a master in his writing of his book "Hard Candy;Nobody Ever Flies Over the Cuckoo's Nest"I couldn't put it down and read it in a 24 hour period. I laughed at some of the irony and wit that came from himself and his brother as they met head on the horror of their existence...and I wept and I marveled how he and his beloved brother who shared the horror of being wrongly placed in an institution could live to tell. As a foster child advocate I am keenly aware of what is wrong many times when it comes to the handling of children in the child welfare system. Charles Carrolll captures the horror in his masterful writing and once you read this book trust me you will never be the same...

a true horror story
Reviewed by Joanne Benham for Reader Views (08/06)
Hard Candy
As i have grown up in New Jersey and not far from the home in New Lisbon I was really interested in reading this book.I had visited the home in the 80's, giving out Christmas presents to some of the boys.
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Subjects:  1. Abuse - General    2. Biography & Autobiography    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Biography/Autobiography    5. Childhood Memoir    6. General    7. Biography & Autobiography / General   

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The Education of Little Tree By: Forrest Carter
This book is about a boy orphaned very young who is adopted by his Cherokee Grandmother and half Cherokee Grandfather in the Appalachian Mountains of Tennesse during the Great Depression. He Grandparents named him Little Tree. He is taught how to hunt and survive the mountains the Cherokee way, taking only what is needed by his Grandfather. He is taught the joys of reading and education by his Grandmother. He also learns the way of white businessmen and tax collectors and how Grandfather scared the away. Little Tree is sent off to an indian boarding school run by whites. We learn of the cruelty of indian children. Little Tree learns how the world differs from the Cherokee way.
The WORST book I ever recorded...
When I was first chosen to narrate this book, I knew nothing of the racist past of it's author -- I knew only that it was the single worst book I'd ever been assigned.The negative AudioFile Magazine review of my recording (quoted here on Amazon) is completely fair.Reading the book to myself in order to prepare to record it, I found it annoying in the extreme -- the so-called prose is precious and poorly written, and the allegedly authentic colloquialisms are grating.When it came time to say it all aloud, for the first time ever (and I've narrated upwards of 200 audiobooks) I found it impossible to invest this piece literary flotsam with any emotional content whatsoever.As declining the job was no longer an option, I merely tried to stay out of the way and give it as simple and logical a performance as I could, but I was unable to compensate for the God awful writing, and unable to disguise my contempt for the entire enterprise.It remains the worst recording I have ever done, and I was, for a time, quite ashamed of it.Now that I discover more about it's hate mongering author, I'm actually pleased that the recording stinks.I now believe I gave this garbage exactly the reading it deserved.(I must add that I learned a valuable lesson: never record a book you loathe.I was subsequently offered the execrable "Left Behind" series for young adults, but having suffered through "Little Tree," knew better than to lend my voice to the spewing of "Christian" hate.)

Disappointing
This book was assigned school reading.I found it rather boring and the language used in the story became annoying after a while.Not recommended. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Abridged Audio - Autobiography/Biography    2. Audio: Juvenile    3. Childhood Memoir    4. Ethnic Cultures - Native Americans    5. Regional Subjects - South   

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This is the real thing:NOT a "pseudo-Romanian" writer!
Francine Prose's blurb says it all:check it out on the inside cover of this book.THR is a multi-layered memoir that does not always proceed in chronological fashion.This story of a Romanian exile's return to his homeland is more substantial and real than Romanian-born writer Andrei Codrescu (who changed his surname from Perlmutter to "Codrescu," probably to appear more exotic in the US).When Norman Manea fears encountering the staff at the Intercontinental Hotel in Bucharest, he has REAL reason to, unlike the poseur "Codrescu," who likes to fancy himself a revolutionary. In 1992, Manea penned a controversial essay on M. Eliad, a conflicted man whose relations with Romania's ultranational Iron Guard caused him much intrapersonal conflict.Manea also blew the whistle then on the RO community in chicago where a significant community of IG sympathizers still carry the flame today.In fact, he intimates, there may yet be a connection between the IG/Chicago Legionnaires and the Securitate in RO even today.Dangerous stuff even in these enlightened times some 60+ years later after the changing of the fascist/communistic guard in RO.Debates of this type go on in all eastern European countries, as they begin to sort thru their messy post-fascist/post-communist pasts;combine this with the added and ironical baggage of having many former Party leaders morph into "democratic" leaders.Absurdity never dies.Manea inspires his readers to delve into the works of other RO writers like Cioran, Paul Celan, I. Culianu, Petru Cretia...so Francine Prose sums things up neatly with her observation that "THR operates on so many levels that finally, it eludes all classification."Well said.

A great autobiography
This is a wonderful, if difficult book. It cronicles the author's life. Norman Manea suffered from both the Holocaust and Communism. Being Jewish, he and his family were deported during the Second World War to a concentration camp set up by Romania's fascist regime (General Ion Antonescu, Hitler's ally) in Transnistria, where several hundred thousand Jews were imprisoned and died in horrible circumstances. Luckily he survived the KZ and returned to Romania. Later on, when he had become a writer, he was declared enemy of the state and a 'hooligan' by Romania's Communists, because he had dared criticize the antisemitic government in an article. (Another fascinating Romanian-Jewish writer, Mihail Sebastian (see his Jurnal) was described as a 'hooligan' by antisemits in a literary scandal back in the 30's - the term has deep connotations for Manea). His relationship to his homeland remained troubled even after he left Romania in the 80's, settling down in New York as a professor for literature (he teaches at Bard College). Although he is one of Romania's best writers, his country's literary elite treats him with a certain embarassment. He can be compared in this respect to Imre Kertesz's relationship with Hungary.Read more

Subjects:  1. 20th century    2. Biography    3. Biography & Autobiography    4. Biography / Autobiography    5. Biography/Autobiography    6. Childhood Memoir    7. Childhood and youth    8. Concentration camps    9. Literary    10. Manea, Norman    11. Novelists, Romanian    12. Personal Memoirs    13. Romania    14. Romanian Americans    15. Romanian Literature    16. Travel   

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Gorky's son in law
Matthew Spender has something to offer for someone really curious about this artists work. I have been compairing the three biographies. Herrara's book has been much acclained. But, when it comes to getting into the nitty -gritty of an artist's work, Spender is better. Particularly when he writes of his work in the fields of Virginia.None of the other writers have really tackled this important part of Gorky's art. As a sculpture Spender must have wondered would Gorkylike me and my work.The Armenian backgound has been covered by quite a few books. None can surpass some of Spenders insight into Gorky's creative process.A shortcomihg of this biography is the lack of color reproductions of the paintings.His choice of photos of the family of Gorky ,give us a glimpse of his background. The paper back (a catalogue )"the breakthrough years /Arshile Gorky" would be a good companionbook of this bio as it has ample repros and an essay by Spender among others ;Aupling for one.

Armenian Modern
Matthew Spender, son of poet Stephen, is a good writer who does a deft job of weaving his research into a lively story. But being the husband of Gorky's oldest daughter limits his interests to the "family" side of the artist's life: to hear Spender tell it, Gorky lived through three decades of New York's modern art revolution dreaming of butterchurns back in Armenia. He never really explains what drove Gorky to become an artist, let alone an abstract modern artist, in the face of family pressures, the trials of being an immigrant, and the burden he carried as a survivor of the Armenian genocide.
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Subjects:  1. 1904-1948    2. Artists, Architects, Photographers    3. Biography    4. Biography & Autobiography    5. Biography / Autobiography    6. Biography/Autobiography    7. Childhood Memoir    8. Gorky, Arshile,    9. History - Abstract    10. New York    11. New York (State)    12. Painters    13. 20th century    14. Art / General    15. Art styles: c First World War to 1960    16. Turkey   

Subjects:  1. Biography & Autobiography    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. Biography/Autobiography    4. Childhood Memoir    5. General    6. Personal Memoirs    7. Specific Groups - Special Needs    8. Women    9. Biography & Autobiography / General    10. Biography: general    11. Child abuse    12. Coping with personal problems    13. Lancashire    14. True stories of endurance & survival    15. c 1945 to c 1960   

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Absolutely loved this book!!!
I first met George Tabb at a club one night last year and found out we had some old friends from the past in common.He said he had a book out called Playing Right Field that I might like and another one, Surfing Armageddon, that will be coming out in a few months.The first one was a childhood memoir, the second is about his high school and early college years.I found George really interesting to talk to, so I was determined to look up these books, and read about this guy.As my friends and I were leaving the club, he said if I was interested, I can check out his web site.So the next day at my office, I found the site and glanced at a few of his blog entries.This guy was very funny.And I thought anyone who loves their little Yorkie that much clearly has a big, big heart.So I looked up his books on Amazon, and read their descriptions.
George's dad sure as heck wasn't mr C think his dad may of been my dad too.....
Ahoy, if you're looking to buy this book you're proboly already familier with George Tabb's style of writing.And, so this book is more or less compiled as his column's tend to be written.Most of the stories are in proper order with a few a bit out of place but, no big deal.This is more a book to read here and there on one's lunch break not a sit down and read it from cover to cover. George reminds us what it's like to be on the receiving end of childrens cruelity and dealing it out mostly on the receiving end though. Arn't most punks the rejects of the so called norm children?George also shows the era for them young punks what kids did before they had video games and all that crap.They beat the crap out of each other had crazy adventures avoided their crappy parents and more or less just pain flat survive the bs years.This book would've been a five cept the first few chapters are rather ackward.....They seem to be structed rather oddly.They offer an early peak at George and that's perhaps why they're ackward cause they're from when he was 6 and a bit under while other chapters are 6th grade up to high school so, i think his memory is a bit hazy to add his style of humor to the story whilst keeping it on the tab or real.If you like George's writing overall you'll not be disappointed.Or, if you or someone you know's just likes to read stories about others that aren't really famous than this is also a good book to pick up.So, stop reading those F'n opera books and pick up a book about real life adventures from the Seventies.See George shoot his pop, see George puke at carney island, read about his adventure of killing the tortise that ate goats and kittens, also why one should avoid the left hand of the blind child and is wrestling a fag sport?!? Find out first hand from George if it is indeed and what the hell is Fourth Trumpett!!!!! All these wonderments and questions are in this book! After you're done reading this book you'll feel like drinking and being lazy. Or just like why the hell am I still working this crap job......

George Tabb Is A Genius.
I had never heard of George Tabb until my friend Jenni recommended that I read his book, it was all of $8 including shipping so I figured, why not?
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Subjects:  1. Biography & Autobiography    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. Biography/Autobiography    4. Childhood Memoir    5. Composers & Musicians - General    6. Jews In The U.S.    7. Personal Memoirs    8. Biography: film, television & music    9. Punk    10. USA   

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Stories until now untold
One way of dealing with events that bring one to a daily struggle is to tell a story, and Maria Ritter has told a fascinating story, captivating at every turn, and elucidating a period in her life that helps us all in overcoming the struggles of our own pasts. This book is one of several appearing in these days about the world of the writer's childhood.We have heard it from those who suffered through the holocaust, we have heard it from the point of view of Europe coming out of the destruction of World War II, but here is another account of one who was a child, severely wounded in the bombing of Dresden, seeking to find her past, and either forgive it to redeem it in the light of all that history has shown about the power and abuse of Hitler in Nazi Germany.
Moving Memoir
This book touched me on many levels.First, it was eye opening to learn more about the effect of WWII from the prospective of a child in Germany.To learn not only about the raw experience of war itself, but the struggles and shame after the war.Issues that are complex for anyone, let alone a child who was given no explanation for what had happened.Second, it is a story of survival and the resilience of the human spirit. Third, it discusses the importance of coming to terms with the struggles of the past and learning to be at peace with them.

Both heartbreaking and inspirational
Maria Ritter returns to Germany as an adult, and through the recollections of her early childhood, recalls the horrors and devastation brought to her homeland through the Hitler regime and the post WWII years under the communists.Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Biography & Autobiography    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Biography/Autobiography    5. Childhood Memoir    6. Dresden    7. Dresden (Germany)    8. Europe - Germany    9. Forced migration    10. German Americans    11. Germany    12. Psychological aspects    13. Ritter, Maria    14. Social Scientists & Psychologists    15. Women    16. World War, 1939-1945   

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Interesting WWII story
A child in remote Phillipines at the outbreak of the ware. The author leans heavily on her mother's diary for material.

WW II -- UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL
Ms Maynard reaches a long way back into her memory to bring us this absorbing tale of a family forced to hide in the jungle on Mindanao when World War II broke out. The Japanese took over the Philippines, leaving nine-year old Mary McKay, her parents and a brother away at boarding school, stranded. With the American Pacific fleet sunk at Pearl Harbor, General McArthur�s advice that Americans were in no danger turned out to be very wrong. McArthur was a stockholder in Mindanao Mother Lode, a mining operation where the author�s father worked. From a comfortable existence with servants to cook their meals and wash their clothes, this family had to flee to another inactive mining camp well into the interior of the island, where they were further from the Japanese soldiers now swarming over the coastal areas. evocative and insightful
I learned about this book from my high school alumni web page and read it mostly out of curiousity. A fascinating book, a coming-of-age tale of a young girl in wartime. I so appreciated the author's skillful melding of her childish observations and her retrospective adult understanding of this difficult period of her life. She unflinchingly, and often humorously, describes the colonial prejudices of her parents and other Americans in their small community, their condescension toward Filipinos and Filipino-American mestizos, the tensions arising from a basic incompatibility between her parents, their strained relations with other fugitives from the war, and even a sexual assault. What makes the book so special, beyond its extraordinary tale, is the author's mature and sensitive handling of the subject matter. She owns up to her own failings and seeks to understand and forgive those of others, without condoning bad behavior. As an expatriate child in the Philippines (more than 20 years ago), I too felt superior to and made fun of the locals and am now heartily ashamed of it. Just as it took age and distance to fully appreciate my family, I can now admit to my love for the Philippines and her peoples. Our situations were so different, nevertheless McKay's words resonated strongly for me and inspire me to seek to develop even a fraction of her graciousness.Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography & Autobiography    2. Biography/Autobiography    3. Childhood Memoir    4. Historical - General    5. History - Military / War    6. Maynard, Mary McKay    7. Military - World War II    8. Personal narratives, American    9. Philippines    10. World War, 1939-1945    11. Biography & Autobiography / Historical   

Subjects:  1. 1905-1998    2. 20th century    3. Biography & Autobiography    4. Biography / Autobiography    5. Biography/Autobiography    6. Childhood Memoir    7. Childhood and youth    8. Family    9. Fishing villages    10. Historical - General    11. History    12. Maine    13. Matinicus Island    14. Simpson, Dorothy,    15. Women    16. Travel / General   

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a peek at a failed experiment
Mr.Balaban's honest look at his own experience as a product of the kibbutz, allows the non kibbutznik reader to confirmwhat wasintuitive; that the utopian experiment of the kibbutzhas gone awry, much in the way other utopian experiments of a more grandiose scale based on the premise of a "new man" have gone.Mr.Balaban also enables us to use this book as a prism with which to look at Israeli society,heavily influenced by the kibbutz movement in the 50's and 60's. Although the writting is sometimes inconsistent, its candor more than makes up for it. For anyone interested in Israel in general, and in the Kibbutz movement in particular, this is a serious piece of work. To the reader's gain, the author chose to risk the spurn of his fellow gordonians and for that he needs to be commended. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography / Autobiography    2. Childhood Memoir    3. Psychology    4. Biography: general    5. Non-Classifiable    6. Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects    7. Social groups & communities   

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A wonderful memoir written with a steady and insightful hand
This book pulls you in from page one as it travels like the human subconscious from beautiful memories to the skeletons we place delicately in closets. Suarez's knack for both poetry and prose makes the writing interesting--something you go back to again and again. I recommend this book to anyone who loves great writing and wants to experience another life and experience in a most intimate way.

Pretty good stuff from a interesting fellow
I read this book twice because it was so unusual. I like the way it blendsfiction, poetry, and essays into a congruous whole.Very nice work.Ihighly recommend this for anyone interested in learning about theCuban-American experience. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1962-    2. Biography & Autobiography    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Biography/Autobiography    5. Childhood Memoir    6. Childhood and youth    7. Cuban Americans    8. Ethnic Cultures - General    9. Hispanic American Novel And Short Story    10. Literary    11. Literary collections    12. Social life and customs    13. Suarez, Virgil,    14. Suâarez, Virgil,    15. Suarez, Virgil   

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Beautiful translation of a moving childhood memoir
The Black Seasons lets the reader share the fragments of childhood memories of a Jewish child survivor in Poland during German occupation and the Holocaust. This brilliant translation of Michel Glowinski's recounting of his childhood memories is a valuable contribution to the understanding of the experiences of Jewish families in Poland during the time of the "industrialized mass murder", and at the end also shares the reflections of the author at a later time in his life.This book is unique in that it is the honest recounting of fragmentary childhood memories of a time of constant unspeakable fear, told in articulate and eloquent language. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Biography & Autobiography    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Biography/Autobiography    5. Childhood Memoir    6. Childhood and youth    7. Critics    8. General    9. Gowinski, Micha    10. Historical - Holocaust    11. Jews    12. Literary historians    13. Poland    14. Biography & Autobiography / General    15. Biography: general    16. European history: from c 1900 -    17. The Holocaust   

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This a a sweet little memoir
This is an incredible true sweet tale of a little girl born with a physical disfiguration. Flannery O'Connor wrties a brilliant introduction and the story of this innocent little girl is irresistable. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Atlanta    2. Biography    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Cancer    5. Childhood Memoir    6. Diseases - Cancer    7. Georgia    8. Health    9. Mary Ann    10. Patients    11. Reference    12. Specific Groups - Special Needs    13. Tumors in children    14. Biography: general   

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Self analysis, not food lit
I usually do not put aside a book before finishing it.In this case, I got about a third of the way through and just skimmed the rest and could not bring myself to read it in detail.I purchased this book hoping (despite prior reviews) that it was more food lit than self analysis.However, the strength of this book is in its description of tense family relationships, and indeed not in its descriptions of food in Desalvo's life.If you are interested in it anyway, good luck - there is a lot of emotion in it.

Still chewing
This book is the first in a very long time I've read word by word.Even when I could set aside her subjects, the vitality of DeSalvo's writing style was irresistable for me--elegant, layered, a bit vulgar, self-indulgent, complex, musical, heartbreaking, self-effacing, beautiful.
Book as Ipecac
OMG....I forced myself to get beyond page 13 and just had to give it up. There really isn't any 'food'in her repetitive writing, but a lot of angst squished up into a white bread samich that apparently NO one wants to eat, each for their own screwed up, twisted reasons.... what this book did for my stomach was put it in knots..... BASTA!
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Subjects:  1. 1942-    2. Biography    3. Biography & Autobiography    4. Biography / Autobiography    5. Biography/Autobiography    6. Childhood Memoir    7. Childhood and youth    8. DeSalvo, Louise A.,    9. Essays    10. Family    11. General    12. Italian American families    13. Italian Americans    14. New Jersey    15. Regional Subjects - MidAtlantic    16. Social life and customs    17. Cooking / Italian   

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Re-experiencing school
In her smart Introduction Dr. Susan Richards Shreve says, "I have had a half a century of an uneasy alliance with school." She tells about that alliance from a variety of angles, beginning with herself as "a bad student, a very bad student, and finally a good one." She's an English professor, a mother of four children, am impassioned advocate and an able observer and memoirist. Her son, Porter Shreve, has his great own story to tell - as the bedeviled (and bedeviling) 'scholarship kid' at the school that employed his dad.Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography / Autobiography    2. Childhood Memoir    3. Essays    4. General    5. Literary    6. Literary Collections    7. Literature: Classics   

Subjects:  1. Biography & Autobiography    2. Biography / Autobiography    3. Biography/Autobiography    4. Childhood Memoir    5. Ethnic Cultures - General    6. Historical - General    7. Historical - Holocaust    8. Biography: political    9. Ethnic studies    10. The Holocaust   

Editorial Review

In 1959, meatpackers in the little Minnesota town of Albert Lea went on strike to demand better working conditions and higher rates of pay. The plant's owners brought in strikebreakers from nearby towns, violence ensued, the governor of Minnesota called in the National Guard, and for a few days news from Albert Lea filled papers around the United States.Read more

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Tribute to the Greatest Generation's working-class
I don't much like memoirs. But Packinghouse Daughter, by Cheri Register, is not a typical memoir. It is enchanting, disturbing, and provocative. It should be read by a wide range of readers, including academics and other middle-class professionals who pride themselves on "siding with the working class." It shatters some of our illusions and our tendency to romanticize our identification with working-class people even as it encourages us to hold fast to our principles. The book should also be read by the countless working-class parents who worked hard to give their children the life they knew they could never have. Speaking for those children, this book says eloquently: we honor you, our parents, for your commitments and principles and will try to carry those into our very different worlds. As a bonus, the book's author tells her story so well, with a disarming openness about her conflicted emotions and with such humor and earthy but deep insight, that it will be accessible even to those who don't read much. A Perfect Memoir
I first found out about this book in an article in the Rochester newspaper about the Minnesota Historical Society Press. Since then, I have purchased several of their books. *Packinghouse Daughter* won the American Book Award and the Minnesota Book Award for autobiography, and it deserved both prizes heartily! This book is full of interesting people, class struggle, a young woman coming of age, and old-fashioned Midwestern life. If you hate those whiney memoirs about bad childhoods then this is the perfect antidote. recommended reading
Even if you are not from the midwestor know nothing about the meat packing business this book will give you much to think about. Cheri has a way of bringing you into her experiences. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1945-    2. 20th century    3. Albert Lea    4. Albert Lea (Minn.)    5. Biography    6. Biography / Autobiography    7. Childhood Memoir    8. Childhood and youth    9. History    10. History: American    11. Labor    12. Minnesota    13. Packing-houses    14. Regional Subjects - Midwest    15. Register, Cheri,    16. Strikes and lockouts    17. United States - 20th Century    18. Women    19. Working class    20. History / United States / 20th Century    21. Reading Group Guide