She tells the tale of the famous variegated tulips that Dutch growers once prized but could not duplicate. Hansen writes successfully in New Zealand and his American publisher hopes this will be his breakout book here. This month Oxford University Press rescued Ambrose Bierce, Alone in Bad Company by Roy Morris, Jr., by publishing the paperback version of this well-reviewed 1995 biography. Small press Green Integer in Los Angeles has published the travel journals of storyteller Hans Christian Andersen in a highly portable, small paperback edition titled Travels . Spilling Open, The Art of Becoming Yourself is Sabrina Ward Harrison's illustrated journal of growing up adolescent.
Every page is a visual feast created by one person's grappling with change.
Very personal and absorbing. She learned to fall freely, with her muscles relaxed and her mind open, inhaling the bitterness of sweat along with stale cigarette smoke, inhaling the thought of freedom, with her hands by her sides, her fingertips clutching the fabric of her dress, her reddened lips turned up in a smile. At first she was afraid to fall. She wanted to look behind. She bent at the waist and fell awkwardly, buckling at the knees.