The Low Road: A Scottish Family Memoir - Rilegato

Miner, Valerie

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0870135929 ISBN 13: 9780870135927

Casa editrice: Michigan State Univ Pr, 2001

Riassunto

"This is the story I have been writing for my whole life. With my life," writes Valerie Miner in this elegant and compassionate account of her family's migration from Edinburgh's tenements across the world. The Low Road explores location and dislocation in a large, poverty stricken Scottish family. Focusing on the life journeys of her grandmother, her mother, and herself, Miner searches for truth about family members, unveiling family secrets and missing histories. This powerful and moving memoir is a dramatic passage through poverty, immigration, and national and sexual identity. 
     Utterly engrossing, The Low Road navigates between family fable and fact as Miner leads us through her discoveries about back-street abortion and tuberculosis, orphanhood, exile, estrangement, and reconciliation to reach a place of acceptance and understanding.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Michigan State Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0870135929
• ISBN 13: 9780870135927
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 259