No Way Renee: The Second Half of My Notorious Life

Richards, Renee, and Ames, John

ISBN 10: 0743290135 / ISBN 13: 9780743290135

Editore: Simon & Schuster, New York, 2007

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xiii, 302 p. Illustrations. Index. At the age of 40, Richard Raskind died and Rene Richards was born. Having now lived as a woman nearly as long as she did as a man, this pioneering transsexual shares her complete life story. Very good in very good dust jacket. DJ has slight edgewear and soiling. Codice articolo 64451

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Titolo: No Way Renee: The Second Half of My ...

Casa editrice: Simon & Schuster, New York

Data di pubblicazione: 2007

Legatura: Hardcover

Edizione: First edition. First printing [stated].

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A candid personal account by a pioneering doctor and tennis player who underwent sex reassignment surgery in 1975 discusses her pursuit of legal rights, her perspectives on gender issues, and her relationship with her son. 50,000 first printing.

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Renee Richards is a successful physician and champion tennis player. Born in 1934 as Richard Raskind, Richards was thrust into the international spotlight by the disclosure of her sex reassignment surgery after she won a women's tennis tournament. She is a graduate of Yale and the University of Rochester School of Medicine, an Eastern Tennis Hall of Fame inductee, and the author of Second Serve: The Renée Richards Story. She lives in New York State.

John Ames is an educator and writer whose published work includes Second Serve: The Renée Richards Story and Speaking of Florida. He received his M.A. from the University of Florida, where he was a Ford Fellow. He lives in Gainesville, Florida, where he spent more than thirty years as an English instructor at Santa Fe Community College.