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ix, 207 pages 22 cm |
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In 2012, at age 38, when she left on a reporting trip to Mongolia, Ariel Levy thought she had figured it out: she was married, pregnant, successful on her own terms, financially secure. A month later, none of that was true. 'People have been telling me since I was a little girl that I was too fervent, too forceful, too much. I thought I had harnessed the power of my own strength and greed and love to a life that could contain it. But it has exploded.' In gorgeous, moving, humorous, sharp, and unforgettable prose, with pointillist portraits of a girl and then a young woman coming of age, Levy describes her own ill-fated assumptions: thinking that anything is possible, that the old rules do not apply; that marriage doesn't have to mean monogamy; that gender and sexuality are fluid; that aging doesn't have to mean infertility. This is a searing story, written with humor, brilliance, and insight, that is at once personal and universal--a story about realizing that life is so often beyond our control, and how we forge ahead despite that. In telling her own story, Levy has captured a portrait of our time, of the shifting forces in values, women and gender in American culture, of what has changed and what has remained |
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Levy, Ariel
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Lesbiska
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Journalister
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Women journalists -- United States -- Biography
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Lesbians -- United States -- Biography
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Sex role -- United States
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Life change events -- United States
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Självbiografier
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Autobiographies.
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Förenta staterna
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USA
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| Classmark |
305.30973
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Lz Levy, Ariel
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| ISBN/ISSN |
9780349005300 (paperback) |
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0349005303 (paperback) |
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9780349005294 |
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034900529X |
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