Memoir Of Childhood
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Angela S Ashes
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Author : Frank McCourt
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2005
Angela S Ashes written by Frank McCourt and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Children categories.
A heartfelt account of poverty in Ireland and emigration to America. -- back cover.
Bookworm
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Author : Lucy Mangan
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2018-03-01
Bookworm written by Lucy Mangan and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
The perfect Christmas gift for the bookworm in your life. 'Beautiful and moving... It will kickstart a cascade of nostalgia for countless people' Marian Keyes When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up different worlds and cast new light on this one. She was whisked away to Narnia - and Kirrin Island - and Wonderland. She ventured down rabbit holes and womble burrows into midnight gardens and chocolate factories. No wonder she only left the house for her weekly trip to the library. In Bookworm, Lucy brings the favourite characters of our collective childhoods back to life and disinters a few forgotten treasures poignantly, wittily using them to tell her own story, that of a born, and unrepentant, bookworm. 'Passionate, witty, informed, and gloriously opinionated' Jacqueline Wilson 'A deliciously nostalgic treat' Good Housekeeping 'Lucy Mangan has enough comic energy to power the National Grid' The Spectator
Germs
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Author : Richard Wollheim
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2021-02-02
Germs written by Richard Wollheim and has been published by New York Review of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A brilliant, sinuous exploration of family and childhood memory by one of the most original British philosophers of the twentieth century. Germs is about first things, the seeds from which a life grows, as well as about the illnesses it incurs, the damage it sustains. Written at the end of his life by Richard Wollheim, one of the major philosophers of the late twentieth century, the book is not the usual story of growing up and getting on but a brilliant recovery and evocation of childhood consciousness and unconsciousness, an eerily precise rendering of that primitive, formative world we all come from in which we do not know either the world or ourselves for sure, and things—houses, clothes, meals, parents—loom large around us, as indispensable as they are out of our control. Richard Wollheim’s remarkably original memoir is a disturbing, enthralling, dispassionate but also deeply personal depiction of a child standing, fascinated and fearful, on the threshold of individual life.
Germs
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Author : Richard Wollheim
language : en
Publisher: Dufour Editions
Release Date : 2004
Germs written by Richard Wollheim and has been published by Dufour Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Richard Wollheim grew up lonely and sad in London's wealthy suburbs during the 1920s and 1930s, yet his was a childhood more interesting than most. He had an impresario father and a "Gaiety Girl" mother; together they attracted important guests (Diaghilev, Kurt Weill, Serge Lifar) to the grand houses and hotels that punctuated the landscape of Wollheim's early years. Germs is his account of that time, of the years he spent adoring his charming but distant father; of his regret for loathing his beautiful, mindless mother. Told in prose that with hypnotic ease moves from deadpan comedy to poignant loneliness, Germs is already a classic work of memoir.
Childhood
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Author : Shannon Burns
language : en
Publisher: Text Publishing
Release Date : 2022-10-05
Childhood written by Shannon Burns and has been published by Text Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Things may have been good for a while, but it didn’t last: they argued fiercely and he left. Weeks later, she tracked him down and said she was pregnant. So he moved back in with her and they prepared themselves for parenthood. Eleven months later I was born. By the time my father discovered the deception, it was too late. In this arresting memoir, Shannon Burns recalls a childhood spent bouncing between dysfunctional homes in impoverished suburbs, between families unwilling or unable to care for him. Aged nine, he beats his head against the pillow to get himself to sleep. Aged ten, he knows his mother will never be able to look after him: he is alone, and can trust no-one. Five years later, he is working in a recycling centre —hard labour, poorly paid—yet reading offers hope. He begins reciting lines from Greek lyric poets, Keats, Whitman, speeches by Martin Luther King, while sifting through the filthy cans and bottles. An affair with the mother of a schoolfriend eventually offers a way out, a path to a life utterly unlike the one he was born into. Shannon Burns is a writer, critic and academic from Adelaide. His work has appeared in the Monthly, Meanjin, Australian Book Review and the Sydney Review of Books. ‘Childhood reads like Gorky and Tolstoy—not nudging but shoving the reader headfirst towards hard-won epiphanies with a brutal yet transcendent urgency.’ Alice Pung 'Childhood is about more than reliving trauma—it shows us how literature can offer a pathway to survival, if not redemption. Shannon Burns demonstrates how to soldier on when all hope and dignity are lost.’ Tyson Yunkaporta
Parenting Through The Eyes Of A Child
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Author : Tabitha Ochekpe Omeiza
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2017-07-05
Parenting Through The Eyes Of A Child written by Tabitha Ochekpe Omeiza and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Religion categories.
If your child was asked to judge your parenting, what grade would you receive? In this memoir, the author looks back at her childhood growing up in Bukuru in the north-central part of Nigeria - and she gives her parents high marks. In sharing memories of her childhood, she reveals how her parents raised her, served as role models, took every opportunity to teach, disciplined her and much more. The stories she shares range from funny to serious and will keep you turning the pages. There is something for everyone in this book; parents and children. Being a parent is not easy, but you can forge a healthier and happier relationship with your child or children by looking at Parenting, through the eyes of a child.
Memoirs Of Childhood And Youth
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Author : Albert Schweitzer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1926
Memoirs Of Childhood And Youth written by Albert Schweitzer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1926 with categories.
A Touch Of Innocence
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Author : Katherine Dunham
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1994-06
A Touch Of Innocence written by Katherine Dunham and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An internationally known dancer, choreographer, and gifted anthropologist, Katherine Dunham was born to a black American tailor and a well-to-do French Canadian woman twenty years his senior. This book is Dunham's story of the chaos and conflict that entered her childhood after her mother's early death. In stark prose, she tells of growing up in both black and white households and of the divisions of race and class in Chicago that become the harsh realities of her young life. A riveting narrative of one girl's struggle to transcend the painful confusions of a family and culture in turmoil, Dunham's story is full of the clarity, candor, and intelligence that lifted her above her troubled beginnings. "A Touch of Innocence is an absorbing family chronicle written with a gift for physical detail sometimes too real for comfort. In quietly graphic prose the growing girl, the slightly older brother, the ambitious father and the kind stepmother are pictured in such human terms that when their lives get tied into harder and harder knots beyond their undoing, one can only continue to read helplessly as doom closes in upon the household."—Langston Hughes, New York Herald Tribune "A Touch of Innocence is one of the most extraordinary life stories I have ever read . . . . The content of this book is so heartbreaking that only the strongest artistic skills can keep it from leaking out into sobbing self-pity, but Katherine Dunham's art contains it, understands it and refuses to be overwhelmed by its terrors."—Elizabeth Janeway, New York Times "The first eighteen years of the famous dancer and choreographer's life are brought vividly to the reader in this first volume of her autobiography. She writes of what it is like to be a special, gifted young woman growing up in a racially mixed family in the American Middle West. A beautiful, touching and sometimes discomforting book."—Publishers Weekly "As writing it is honest, searing, graphic and touching, giving us a rather heartbreaking early view of the young American Negro who was later to make a name for herself as a dancer and choreographer."—Arthur Todd, Saturday Review
Reading My Mother Back
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Author : Timothy C. Baker
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2022-09-13
Reading My Mother Back written by Timothy C. Baker and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An innovative memoir connecting ideas of grief, memory, and animals to illustrate the importance of storytelling. When his mother died, Timothy C. Baker discovered that there was almost no record of her existence, and no stories that were his to tell: the only way to bring her back was through reading. Reading My Mother Back is a genre-bending memoir that explores a life marked by trauma, illness, religion, and abuse through a focus on the books Baker and his mother shared. The book combines accounts of rereading childhood classics with true and apocryphal stories of a quiet life, marked by great sorrow and great joy. The book is about grief and memory and how our childhood reading shapes the way we see the world; it’s about loneliness and the search for belonging; it’s about how ordinary lives are transfigured by storytelling. Moving from accounts of American evangelical communities to kidney failure, from literary criticism to psychoanalysis, and from guilt to love, Baker shows how literature provides a framework for understanding our experiences, and offers a way of connecting with everything we have lost. The book illustrates how children’s animal stories bring us into a love of the world, and how acts of rereading become a way not of assuaging grief, but of bringing the past and present together. Reading My Mother Back offers a bold and personal view of why the stories we read and share matter so much. And there are bunnies.
Childhood Years
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Author : Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
language : en
Publisher: Kodansha
Release Date : 1988
Childhood Years written by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki and has been published by Kodansha this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Set against the modernization of Japan and World War II, the personal diary of Jun'ichiro Tanizaki's early years offers a moving look at one of Japan's modern novelists.