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The Hour I First Believed»rank: 16par: Wally Lamb
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Couldn't Keep It to Myself: Testimonies from Our Imprisoned Sisters»rank: 5146par: Wally Lamb, Nancy Whiteley, Tabitha Rowley
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Any book that can give voice to the voiceless should be celebrated. No one feels this more strongly than Wally Lamb, editor of Couldn't Keep lt to Myself, a collection of stories by 11 women imprisoned in the York Correctional lnstitution in Connecticut. Teacher and novelist Lamb was invited to head a writing workshop at York Correctional lnstitution in 1999. His somewhat reluctant acceptance soon turned into steadfast advocacy once the women in his charge began to tell their stories. Lamb maintains that there are things we ... |
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The Hour I First Believed Lp»rank: 6159par: Wally Lamb
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Any book that can give voice to the voiceless should be celebrated. No one feels this more strongly than Wally Lamb, editor of Couldn't Keep lt to Myself, a collection of stories by 11 women imprisoned in the York Correctional lnstitution in Connecticut. Teacher and novelist Lamb was invited to head a writing workshop at York Correctional lnstitution in 1999. His somewhat reluctant acceptance soon turned into steadfast advocacy once the women in his charge began to tell their stories. Lamb maintains that there are things we ... |
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I Know This Much Is True»rank: 4792par: Wally Lamb
Chroniques et points de vue:From :0prah Book Club® Selection, June 1998: What if you were a 40-year-old housepainter, horrifically abused, emotionally unavailable, and your identical twin was a paranoid schizophrenic who believed in public self-mutilation? You'd either be a guest on the Jerry Springer Show or Dominick Birdsey, the antihero, narrator, and bad-juju magnet of l Know This Much ls True. Somewhere in the recesses of this hefty 912-page tome lurks an honest, moving account of one man's search, denial, and acceptance of self. This is no easy feat considering his grandfather ... |
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I'll Fly Away: Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison»rank: 37013de: HarperCollins Canada / Non-Fiction
Chroniques et points de vue:From :0prah Book Club® Selection, June 1998: What if you were a 40-year-old housepainter, horrifically abused, emotionally unavailable, and your identical twin was a paranoid schizophrenic who believed in public self-mutilation? You'd either be a guest on the Jerry Springer Show or Dominick Birdsey, the antihero, narrator, and bad-juju magnet of l Know This Much ls True. Somewhere in the recesses of this hefty 912-page tome lurks an honest, moving account of one man's search, denial, and acceptance of self. This is no easy feat considering his grandfather ... |
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She's Come Undone»rank: 10189par: Wally Lamb
Chroniques et points de vue:From :0prah Book Club® Selection, January 1997: 'Mine is a story of craving; an unreliable account of lusts and troubles that began, somehow, in 1956 on the day our free television was delivered.' So begins the story of Dolores Price, the unconventional heroine of Wally Lamb's She's Come Undone. Dolores is a class-A emotional basket case, and why shouldn't she be? She's suffered almost every abuse and familial travesty that exists: Her father is a violent, philandering liar; her mother has the mental and emotional consistency of Jell-0; ... |
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I Know This Much Is True»rank: 69425par: Wally Lamb
Chroniques et points de vue:From :0prah Book Club® Selection, June 1998: What if you were a 40-year-old housepainter, horrifically abused, emotionally unavailable, and your identical twin was a paranoid schizophrenic who believed in public self-mutilation? You'd either be a guest on the Jerry Springer Show or Dominick Birdsey, the antihero, narrator, and bad-juju magnet of l Know This Much ls True. Somewhere in the recesses of this hefty 912-page tome lurks an honest, moving account of one man's search, denial, and acceptance of self. This is no easy feat considering his grandfather ... |
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I Know This Much Is True»rank: 77043par: Wally Lamb
Chroniques et points de vue:From :0prah Book Club® Selection, June 1998: What if you were a 40-year-old housepainter, horrifically abused, emotionally unavailable, and your identical twin was a paranoid schizophrenic who believed in public self-mutilation? You'd either be a guest on the Jerry Springer Show or Dominick Birdsey, the antihero, narrator, and bad-juju magnet of l Know This Much ls True. Somewhere in the recesses of this hefty 912-page tome lurks an honest, moving account of one man's search, denial, and acceptance of self. This is no easy feat considering his grandfather ... |
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She's Come Undone»rank: 98772par: Wally Lamb
Chroniques et points de vue:From :0prah Book Club® Selection, January 1997: 'Mine is a story of craving; an unreliable account of lusts and troubles that began, somehow, in 1956 on the day our free television was delivered.' So begins the story of Dolores Price, the unconventional heroine of Wally Lamb's She's Come Undone. Dolores is a class-A emotional basket case, and why shouldn't she be? She's suffered almost every abuse and familial travesty that exists: Her father is a violent, philandering liar; her mother has the mental and emotional consistency of Jell-0; ... |
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She's Come Undone»rank: 131212par: Wally Lamb
Chroniques et points de vue:From :0prah Book Club® Selection, January 1997: 'Mine is a story of craving; an unreliable account of lusts and troubles that began, somehow, in 1956 on the day our free television was delivered.' So begins the story of Dolores Price, the unconventional heroine of Wally Lamb's She's Come Undone. Dolores is a class-A emotional basket case, and why shouldn't she be? She's suffered almost every abuse and familial travesty that exists: Her father is a violent, philandering liar; her mother has the mental and emotional consistency of Jell-0; ... |