How I Got Cultured: A Nevada Memoir - Softcover

Barber, Phyllis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0874172330 ISBN 13: 9780874172331

Verlag: University of Nevada Press, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Barber Phyllis

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Críticas:

This is an absorbing, often comic, always vivid account of a childhood torn between the demands of a strict Mormon household and the enticements of a thoroughly secular world. . . . In its shape, its tone, its humor, and its verbal authority, this memoir bears comparison to Annie Dillard's An American Childhood."" -Scott Russell Sanders, author of A Private History of Awe ""The memoir of the remarkable daughter who does splits and cartwheels along her own fine line between fame and damnation."" -Sally S. Eckhoff, Voice Literary Supplement ""Simply the best memoir of Mormon girlhood written in this century."" -The Association for Mormon Letters

Reseña del editor:

Phyllis Barber grew up in Las Vegas, in the midst of a devout Mormon family. As a small child, she began to feel uneasy with her faith's all-pervasive certainty and righteousness. As she grew, the tensions between her religious beliefs and her desire for a larger, more cultured life also grew. She studied piano and dance, performed with a high school precision dance team, worked as an accompanist in a ballet studio and as a model. How I Got Cultured is a moving, candid, and sometimes hilarious account of an American adolescence, negotiated between the strictures of a demanding faith and the allures of one of the most flamboyant cities in the world.

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• Verlag: University of Nevada Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0874172330
• ISBN 13: 9780874172331
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 206