A Berkshire Boyhood: Confessions and Reflecitons of a Baby Boomer - Brossura

Begiebing, Robert

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1937536521 ISBN 13: 9781937536527

Casa editrice: Anaphora Literary Press, 2021

Riassunto

A Berkshire Boyhood: Neither celebrity-gawk, "misery memoir," nor confessional melodrama, A Berkshire Boyhood is more reminiscent of such memoirs as Tobias Wolff's This Boy's Life and Emily Fox Gordon's Are You Happy? In fact, A Berkshire Boyhood will strike readers as a parallel universe to Gordon's book, her own story of growing up in Williamstown, Massachusetts, as a privileged faculty brat and young girl in the 1950s. Berkshire Boyhood is a boy's story of growing up from working class roots in that same place and time. Although A Berkshire Boyhood explores family troubles arising out of the wounds and separations of World War II, ethnic religiosity, and adolescent sexuality (1950s variety), its deeper appeal comes from our curiosity about the 1950s and the Boomer generation, from the fraught relations between that generation and their parents who fought World War II, from our renewed interest in the influence of landscape on human development, and from a vision of the early post-war years as a decade seething with the anger and dissent of an incipient counterculture that would explode the sixties.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Anaphora Literary Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• ISBN 10: 1937536521
• ISBN 13: 9781937536527
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 162
• Disegnatore: Faktorovich Anna