Loud and clear
By: Anna Quindlen
Edition: Trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780812970272
Subjects: American essays
Description: "With her trademark insight and her special ability to convey the impact public events have on ordinary lives, Quindlen here combines commentary on American society and the world at large with reflections on being a woman, a writer, and a mother. In these pieces, first written for Newsweek and The New York Times, Loud and Clear takes on topics ranging from social change to raising children, from the political and emotional aftermath of September 11 to personal values, from the impact on individuals of global events to the growth that can be gained by spending summer days staring into the middle distance. Grounding the public in the private, connecting people to each other and to the greater world, Quindlen encourages us to develop authentic lives, even as she serves as a catalyst for political and social change."--Jacket.
Notes: Originally published in hardcover in a slightly different form by Random House, 2004.
Table of contents: title: Good-bye Dr. Spock; title: Our tired, our poor, our kids; title: Doing nothing is something; title: No privilege for parents; title: In search of a grown-up; title: Playing God on no sleep; title: Playing perfect patty-cake; title: Mom Quixote; title: Now it's time for generation next; title: Daughter of the groom; title: Fall from the nest; title: The C word in the hallways; title: School's out for summer; title: A new roof on an old house; title: An apology to the graduates; title: Flown away, left behind; title: A quilt of a country; title: Staring across a great divide; title: The widows and the wounded; title: Welcome to Animal House; title: The drug that pretends it isn't; title: The problem of the color line; title: A conspiracy of notebooks; title: Happy leader, happy nation; title: It's the cult of personality; title: The sins of the fathers; title: Lead us not; title: The right to be ordinary; title: The power of one; title: Smoke gets in your eyes; title: 17 going on 18; title: The call from the governor; title: Indivisible? Wanna bet?; title: The sounds of silence; title: The great obligation.; title: The reasonable woman standard; title: Barbie at 35; title: Say farewell to pin curls; title: Our radical, ourselves; title: An era ends; title: And now for a hot flash; title: Sexual assault, film at eleven; title: And now, babe feminism; title: Uncle Sam and Aunt Samantha; title: The lone pilgrim; title: Say good-bye to the virago; title: Not a womb in the house; title: The key to success; title: The story of us; title: Off with their ties; title: Oh, Godot; title: Life after death; title: Anniversary; title: Leg waxing and life everlasting; title: Watching the world go by; title: Aha! Caught you reading; title: With a no. 2 pencil, delete; title: Poetry emotion; title: In memoriam : our real pip; title: Imagining the Hansons; title: Everything is under control; title: Honestly. you shouldn't have; title: Armed with only a neutral lipstick; title: Weren't we all so young then?; title: Look at what they've done; title: One day, now broken in two; title: We are here for Andrea; title: Every day, angels; title: At the left hand of God.