Ghostbread

Informationen zum Autor 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 . Klappentext One of seven children brought up by a single mother, Sonja Livingston was raised in areas of western New York that remain relatively hidden from the rest of America. Eschewing sentimentality, this memoir offers a meditation on what it means to hunger and shows that poverty can strengthen the spirit just as surely as it can grind it down. Zusammenfassung Ghostbread makes real for us the shifting homes and unending hunger that shape the life of a girl growing up in poverty during the 1970s. Livingston firmly eschews sentimentality, offering instead a meditation on what it means to hunger and showing that poverty can strengthen the spirit just as surely as it can grind it down.

Product details

• Authors: Sonja Livingston
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2009
• EAN: 9780820333984
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-3398-4
• No. of pages: 239
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 216 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Association of Writers and Wri; Association of Writers and Wri; The Sue William Silverman Priz
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies