When all the world was young
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Barbara Holland
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Bloomsbury; Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781582345253
Subjects: Social life and customs; Homes and haunts; Journalists; Biography; Childhood and youth; American Authors
Description: In a memoir of growing up in Washington, D.C., during the 1940s and 1950s, the author of "Gentleman's Blood" and "Hail to the Chiefs" gives a sharp-eyed look at history, as well as insights into her own life.
Table of contents: title: In which the chairs & domestic habits of fathers are explored, & Nick is born; title: In which mothers & their duties are considered & contrasted with the peculiarities of my own; title: My education begins inauspiciously, & we travel to Florida; title: School & I struggle with each other, plus hard times with the Old Testament; title: In which the behavior of fathers is further elucidated, & a sister joins us; title: Of war & other merry pastimes; title: In which Mother contributes to the war effort; title: The mountain : a pastoral digression; title: The long dark night of junior high school; title: From which I am rescued in the nick of time; title: Mother returns to duty, plus considerations of sex & babies; title: Mother finds a way & Grandmother rebuffs Senator McCarthy; title: An embarrassing episode in which Gloria & I set forth on our travels & come back again; title: Being a treatise on the origins & uses of aunts; title: Continuing education; title: Everyone leaves, everything changes; title: I fail to make sense of normal life & fall into confusion; title: My travels on the bottom of the lake; title: In which I am saved again & live happily ever after; title: That's all?