Manhattan memoir
By: Mary Cantwell.
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 440
Subjects: Cantwell, Mary.; Cantwell, Mary -- Childhood and youth.; Cantwell, Mary -- Travel.; Voyages and travels.; Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography.; New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.; Bristol (R.I. : Town) -- Biography.; Bristol (R.I. : Town) -- Social life and customs.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Here, collected for the first time in one edition, are Mary Cantwell's three beautifully etched and unflinchingly honest memoirs. Cantwell's first book, American Girl, evoked the delights of her youth in a small New England town; her second, Manhattan, When I Was Young, told of her blossoming magazine career in New York's glory years of the 1950s, her marriage and her children, and that marriage's decline.

Speaking with Strangers finds Cantwell alone, a single mother struggling in the big city, bereft of her husband but bolstered by friends, thriving in her career yet personally sad."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: First work originally published: New York : Random House, 1992. 2nd work originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1995. 3rd work originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
Table of contents: title: American girl; title: Manhatten, when I was young; title: Speaking with strangers.