The Low Road: A Scottish Family Memoir (Minnesota) - Softcover

Miner, Valerie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870136402 ISBN 13: 9780870136405

Verlag: Michigan State University Press, 2002

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Book by Miner Valerie

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Reseña del editor:

"This is the story I have been writing for my whole life. With my life," writes Valerie Miner in this elegant and compassionate account of her family's migration from Edinburgh's tenements across the world. The Low Road explores location and dislocation in a large, poverty stricken Scottish family. Focusing on the life journeys of her grandmother, her mother, and herself, Miner searches for truth about family members, unveiling family secrets and missing histories. This powerful and moving memoir is a dramatic passage through poverty, immigration, and national and sexual identity. 
     Utterly engrossing, The Low Road navigates between family fable and fact as Miner leads us through her discoveries about back-street abortion and tuberculosis, orphanhood, exile, estrangement, and reconciliation to reach a place of acceptance and understanding.

Biografía del autor:

Valerie Miner is the award-winning author of fourteen books, including novels, short fiction collections, and nonfiction. Miner s work has appeared inthe "Georgia Review", "TriQuarterly", "Salmagundi", "New Letters", "Ploughshares", the "Village Voice", "Prairie Schooner", the "Gettysburg Review", the "Times Literary Supplement", the "Women s Review of Books", the "Nation", and other journals. Her stories and essays have been published in more than sixty anthologies. A number of her pieces have been dramatized on BBC Radio 4. Her work has been translated into German, Turkish, Danish, Italian, Spanish, French, Swedish, and Dutch. She has won fellowships and awards from the Rockefeller Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, the Heinz Foundation, the Bogliasco Foundation, Fundacion Valparaiso, the Australia Council Literary Arts Board, and numerous other organizations. She has received Fulbright fellowships to Tunisia, India, and Indonesia. Winner of a Distinguished Teaching Award, she has taught for over twenty-five years and is now a professor and artist in residence at Stanford University. She travels internationally giving readings, lectures, and workshops. Her website iswww.valerieminer.com.

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• Verlag: Michigan State University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0870136402
• ISBN 13: 9780870136405
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 259