Poster Child: A Memoir - Hardcover

Rapp, Emily

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1596912561 ISBN 13: 9781596912564

Verlag: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

In an unflinching memoir, a young woman who grew up with a disability that forced the childhood amputation of her entire leg below the knee details her struggle to learn to live with the problem, her role as a poster child for the March of Dimes, dealing with her teenage self-image, and the ultimate coming to terms with her body in a society that values beauty. 50,000 first printing.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Emily Rapp was born in Nebraska and grew up in Wyoming and Colorado. She was a Fulbright Scholar and a James A. Michener Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin. She has received awards and recognition for her work from The Atlantic Monthly, StoryQuarterly, The Mary Roberts Rinehart foundation, the Jentel Arts Foundation, The Corporation of Yaddo, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She was recently the Philip Roth Writer-in-Residence at Bucknell University. She is a professor in the MFA Program at Antioch University in Los Angeles.

Emily Rapp is a professor in the M.F.A. program at Antioch University Los Angeles.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1596912561
• ISBN 13: 9781596912564
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 229
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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