The Camera My Mother Gave Me - Rilegato

Kaysen, Susanna

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ISBN 10: 0679443908 ISBN 13: 9780679443902

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2001

Riassunto

The author relates her odyssey through the world of gynecological medicine in an attempt to diagnose a mysterious disorder, and addresses larger questions that arise when sexual pleasure is replaced by pain.

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Recensione:

"An engrossing examination of pain and the psychology and philosophy used to confront it. Kaysen's lack of conceit and straightforward prose keeps her story clean and absorbing. [She] successfully avoids the self-pity that often seeps into contemporary memoirs. Eve Ensler...pulled a private part out from under the covers. Kaysen dives back in, taking readers with her for a closer look. Even those who still blush when they utter the "V" word will find themselves completely enveloped."
--Susanna Baird, Boston Magazine

"A vagina dialogue: pithy, funny, adventurous, sexy, and eye-opening. . . . Disguised as plain, brown memoir, [this is] a voluptuous exploration of sexuality, aging, the failures of modern medicine, attempts at self-knowledge, and the meaning of pain."
-- Kirkus Review

L'autore:

Susanna Kaysen is the author of the novels Far Afield and Asa, As I Knew Him and the memoir Girl, Interrupted. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0679443908
• ISBN 13: 9780679443902
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 157