Driving with Dvorák : essays on memory and identity

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Title:

Driving with Dvorák : essays on memory and identity

Author:

Jackson, Fleda Brown, 1944-

ISBN:

9780803224766

Personal Author:

Jackson, Fleda Brown, 1944-

Publication Information:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2010.

Physical Description:

268, [1] p. ; 23 cm.

Series:

American lives

American lives.

Contents:

Changing my name -- I am sick of school -- Anatomy of a seizure -- Driving with Dvořák -- Walls six feet thick -- Summer house -- Relativity for dummies -- To tell a story -- Hiking with Amy -- New car -- War of the roses -- Returning the cats -- Showgirls -- Private bath -- Where you are -- Soft conversations

Abstract:

"Driving with Dvorcik is an unconventional memoir. A series of lyrical essays about life in a maddeningly complex family during the even more maddeningly complex fifties and sixties, it adds up to one woman's story while simultaneously reflecting the story of her times." "A strange and erratic father, a resigned and helpless mother, a mentally disabled brother, a sister with a brain tumor: folded into Brown's reflections are the intimacies and ambivalences of family and marriage, girlhood and adolescence, identity and self-knowledge. Whether reflecting on the automobile industry or a wrenching parting from beloved pets or the process of aging, Brown's telling rings with great humor, profound perception, and a lyricism that makes even the most commonplace moment uncommonly good reading."--BOOK JACKET.

Personal Subject:

Jackson, Fleda Brown, 1944-.

Subject Term:

Poets, American -- 21st century -- Biography.

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All our lives are made of moments, both simple and sublime, all of which in some way partake of the cultural moment. Fleda Brown is that rare writer who, in narrating the incidents and observations of her life, turns her story, by wit and insight and a poet's gift, into something more. This is an unconventional memoir. A series of lyrical essays about life in a maddeningly complex family during the even more maddeningly complex fifties and sixties, it adds up to one woman's story while simultaneously reflecting the story of her times. A strange and erratic father, a resigned and helpless mother, a mentally disabled brother, a sister with a brain tumor: folded into Brown's reflections are the intimacies and ambivalences of family and marriage, girlhood and adolescence, identity and self-knowledge. Whether reflecting on the automobile industry or a wrenching parting from beloved pets or the process of aging, Brown's telling rings with great humor, profound perception, and a lyricism that makes even the most commonplace moment uncommonly good reading.