Conundrum - Brossura

Morris, Jan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1590171896 ISBN 13: 9781590171899

Casa editrice: New York Review of Books, 2006

Riassunto

One of the first-ever books on gender transition, this poignant memoir by a trans woman is “the best first-hand account ever written by a traveler across the boundaries of sex” (Newsweek).

“A profoundly poetic story.” —The New York Times
“An exquisite read.” —Maria Popova, The Marginalian

The great travel writer Jan Morris was born James Morris. James Morris distinguished himself in the British military, became a successful and physically daring reporter, climbed mountains, crossed deserts, and established a reputation as a historian of the British empire. He was happily married, with several children. To all appearances, he was not only a man, but a man’s man.

Except that appearances, as James Morris had known from early childhood, can be deeply misleading. James Morris had known all his conscious life that at heart he was a woman.

Conundrum, one of the earliest books to discuss transsexuality with honesty and without prurience, tells the story of James Morris’ hidden life and how he decided to bring it into the open, as he resolved first on a hormone treatment and, second, on risky experimental surgery that would turn him into the woman that he truly was.

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Informazioni sull?autore

JAN MORRIS (1926–2020) has written over forty books, most recently, Thinking Again: A Diary.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: New York Review of Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1590171896
• ISBN 13: 9781590171899
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 174
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile