Ladies Night at the Dreamland

At the Dreamland, women and girls flicker from the shadows to take their proper place in the spotlight. In this lyrical collection, Sonja Livingston weaves together strands of research and imagination to conjure figures from history, literature, legend, and personal memory.

About the author

SONJA LIVINGSTON is an assistant professor in the MFA Program at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her first book, Ghostbread (Georgia), won the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Book Prize for Nonfiction. She is also the author of the recent essay collection Queen of the Fall: A Memoir of Girls and Goddesses.

Summary

In this lyrical collection, Sonja Livingston weaves together strands of research and imagination to conjure figures from history, literature, legend, and personal memory. The result is a series of essays that highlight lives as varied, troubled, and spirited as America itself.

Product details

• Authors: Sonja Livingston, Sonja/ Griswold Livingston
• Assisted by: John Griswold (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9780820353777
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-5377-7
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Crux: The Georgia Series in Li; Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction Series; Crux: The Georgia Series in Li; Crux: The Georgia Literary Non; Crux: The Georgia Literary Non
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama