num_pages: 200
description: A sustained meditation on personal past and the secret nature of reality, this multi-volume work unearths a wealth of hidden meanings from the first-person-historical dimensions recording a Southern California girlhood, moves to Berkeley, Nevada and Michigan, and the chain of great expectations developed along the way--built out of Hollywood movie dreams ("imagining our lives, instead of living them") and inevitably shattered by disappointing and betraying real-life relationships. The bittersweet and ironic evocations of the failed loves of her life make this among the most moving as well as revealing of Wakoski's books.
language: English
title: Medea the Sorceress
titlecomplete: Medea the Sorceress (Archaeology of Movies and Books, Vol. 1)
genres: Poetry, Fiction
ratings_count: 52
series: The Archaeology of Movies and Books
publisher: Black Sparrow Pr