A powerful, blazingly honest, inspiring memoir: the story of a 1,100 mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe-- and built her back up again.
"I Await the Devil's Coming" lays bare in raw, sensual, provocative prose the inner life of an incomparable young woman.
Mary MacLane's I Await the Devil's Coming is a shocking, brave and intellectually challenging diary of a 19-year-old girl living in Butte, Montana in 1902. Written in potent, raw prose that propelled the author to celebrity upon publication, the book has become almost completely…
"I Await the Devil's Coming" lays bare in raw, sensual, provocative prose the inner life of an incomparable young woman.
"In middle age, Ehrenreich came across the journal she had kept during her tumultuous adolescence and set out to reconstruct that quest, which had taken her to the study of science and through a cataclysmic series of uncanny-or as she later learned to call them, "mystical"--Expe…
In 1711, the imperious Virginia patriarch William Byrd II spitefully refused his wife Lucy's plea for a book; a century later, Lady Jean Skipwith placed an order that sent the Virginia bookseller Joseph Swan scurrying to please. These vignettes bracket a century of change in whi…
"In 1711, the imperious Virginia patriarch William Byrd II spitefully refused his wife Lucy's plea for a book; a century later, Lady Jean Skipwith placed an order that sent the Virginia bookseller Joseph Swan scurrying to please. These vignettes bracket a century of change in wh…
Elizabeth Bishop: poems and prose
by Schwartz, Lloyd, Bishop, Elizabeth, Bishop, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Bishop: poems and prose
by Schwartz, Lloyd, Bishop, Elizabeth, Bishop, Elizabeth
"Out of the Crazywoods is the insightful and riveting story of Abenaki poet Cheryl Savageau's late-life diagnosis of manic depression (also known as bipolar disorder) and her personal journey towards the acceptance and management of this life-long illness to achieve emotional st…