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Surrendering Oz, a life in essays, by Bonnie Friedman

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Surrendering Oz, a life in essays, by Bonnie Friedman

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

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no index present

Literary Form

essays

Main title

Surrendering Oz

Oclc number

882738634

Responsibility statement

by Bonnie Friedman

Sub title

a life in essays

Summary

"The boy's coming-of-age story is about leaving home to save the world. The girl's coming-of-age story is about relinquishing the world beyond home. It is about finding a way to sacrifice one's yearning for the larger world and to be happy about it. Surrendering Oz is about giving up the safety of emotionally zoning out--about learning to think with the body. It is a memoir in essays that charts the emotional awakening of a bookish Bronx girl. Bonnie Friedman is the author of Writing Past Dark. She teaches creative writing at the University of North Texas"--, Provided by publisher"Surrendering Oz is a memoir in essays that charts the emotional awakening of a bookish Bronx girl. We follow her from her early job as a proofreader at The Guinness Book of World Records, through an illicit liaison which threatens to destroy her marriage and finally see her take charge of her life as a Texas professor, writer and wise student of her own soul"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Prologue -- Coming of age in book country -- How I learned to think -- Surrendering Oz -- Sabotage -- My Gertrude Stein -- Beauty from the underworld -- Becoming visible -- The watcher -- The masquerade guest -- In a room beside the sea -- Beyond comparison -- The vagabond queen of Craig's list -- The button king: the discipline of the notebook -- A summons to Riverdale -- Afterword: Message from the shades

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