Surrendering Oz
A Life in Essays
Published on 4. November 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
241 pages
978-0-9897532-2-7 (ISBN)
Description
Surrendering Oz is a memoir in essays that charts the emotional awakening of a bookish Bronx girl. From her early job as a proofreader at The Guinness Book of World Records through a series of dominating and liberating friendships and secret connections, the author takes charge of her life as a Texas professor, writer and wise student of her own soul.
Reader's Digest says reading Surrendering Oz "is like having a conversation with a bracingly honest but fundamentally kind friend. In 15 pitch-perfect essays, she chronicles her hard-earned rejection of the cultural fairytales of womanhood as she comes fully into possession of her life".
Reader's Digest says reading Surrendering Oz "is like having a conversation with a bracingly honest but fundamentally kind friend. In 15 pitch-perfect essays, she chronicles her hard-earned rejection of the cultural fairytales of womanhood as she comes fully into possession of her life".
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 226 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9897532-2-7 (9780989753227)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Bonnie Friedman is the author of the widely anthologized Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction, and Other Dilemmas in the Writer's Life. She is also the author of The Thief of Happiness: The Story of an Extraordinary Psychotherapy. Her work has appeared in The Best American Movie Writing, The Best Buddhist Writing, The Best Writing on Writing, the Best Spiritual Writing, and The Best of O., the Oprah Magazine. She teaches creative writing at the University of North Texas, and divides her time between Brooklyn, New York, and Denton, Texas.
Content
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..........................................................
In a Room Beside the Sea................................................
Beyond Comparison.......................................................
The Watcher................................................................
The Vagabond Queen of Craig's List....................................
The Masquerade Guest....................................................
The Button King: The Discipline of the Notebook....................
A Summons to Riverdale .................................................
Afterword: Message from the Shades....................................
Prologue....................................................................
Coming of Age in Book Country.......................................
How I Learned to Think..................................................
Surrendering Oz...........................................................
Sabotage.....................................................................
My Gertrude Stein.........................................................
Beauty from the Underworld.............................................
Becoming Visible..........................................................
In a Room Beside the Sea................................................
Beyond Comparison.......................................................
The Watcher................................................................
The Vagabond Queen of Craig's List....................................
The Masquerade Guest....................................................
The Button King: The Discipline of the Notebook....................
A Summons to Riverdale .................................................
Afterword: Message from the Shades....................................