Manhattan Memoir: American Girl; Manhattan, When I Was Young; Speaking with Strangers
by Mary Cantwell
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Author: Mary CantwellEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2000-05-01
ISBN: 0140291903
Number of pages: 448
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Book Review: Exellent memoir, New York City a main character too
Summary: 5 Stars
It's a memoir about Cantwell being in her 20's and 30's in NYCity -- time period is 1950's and '60's. Very good. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Her writing is really good.
Summary of Manhattan Memoir: American Girl; Manhattan, When I Was Young; Speaking with Strangers
The New York Times said that Mary Cantwell, in telling the story of her life, "Makes you discover yourself." Now, gathered in a single volume, are her three beautifully etched, unflinchingly honest memoirs. Cantwell's first book, American Girl, evoked the delights of her youth in a small New England town; her second, Manhattan, When I Was Young, told of her blossoming career in New York, her marriage and her children, and that marriage's decline. Speaking with Strangers finds Cantwell alone, a single mother struggling in the big city, bereft of her husband but bolstered by friends, thriving in her career yet personally troubled. With a sensibility as distinct as the city she calls home, Cantwell's autobiographical trilogy brilliantly captures her struggle to forge a life with one foot in her past and the other, warily, in her present."Cantwell writes with breathless intensity." --People
"As in the best of memoirs, the place is a character in the play, and Cantwell's courage as a wife and working mother also has a life and inspiration of its own."--Los Angeles Times
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