The rules do not apply : a memoir
Record details
- ISBN: 0812996933 (hardback ; acid-free paper)
- ISBN: 9780812996937 (hardback ; acid-free paper)
- ISBN: 9780812996944 (ebook)
- ISBN: 0812996933 : HRD
- ISBN: 9780812996937 : HRD
- ISBN: 9780812996937 (hardback : acid-free paper)
- ISBN: 0812996933 (hardback : acid-free paper)
- ISBN: 9780812996944 (ebook)
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Physical Description:
xi, 207 pages ; 22 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, 2017.
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | "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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Genre: | Autobiographies. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Weston Public Library | 305.3 LEVY (Text) | 34053141565159 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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