Surrendering Oz
Subtitle: a life in essays
By: by Bonnie Friedman
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780989753227
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Essay; Women teachers; American Women authors; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY; Autobiografische Literatur; Amerikanisches Englisch; Biography; Women
Description: "The boy's coming-of-age story is about leaving home to save the world. The girl's coming-of-age story is about relinquishing the world beyond home. It is about finding a way to sacrifice one's yearning for the larger world and to be happy about it. Surrendering Oz is about giving up the safety of emotionally zoning out--about learning to think with the body. It is a memoir in essays that charts the emotional awakening of a bookish Bronx girl. Bonnie Friedman is the author of Writing Past Dark. She teaches creative writing at the University of North Texas"--

"Surrendering Oz is a memoir in essays that charts the emotional awakening of a bookish Bronx girl. We follow her from her early job as a proofreader at The Guinness Book of World Records, through an illicit liaison which threatens to destroy her marriage and finally see her take charge of her life as a Texas professor, writer and wise student of her own soul"--
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: Coming of age in book country; title: How I learned to think; title: Surrendering Oz; title: Sabotage; title: My Gertrude Stein; title: Beauty from the underworld; title: Becoming visible; title: The watcher; title: The masquerade guest; title: In a room beside the sea; title: Beyond comparison; title: The vagabond queen of Craig's list; title: The button king: the discipline of the notebook; title: A summons to Riverdale; title: Afterword: Message from the shades.