My autobiography of Carson McCullers
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Author
Published
Portland, Oregon : Tin House Books, 2020.
Format
Book
ISBN
9781947793286, 1947793284
Physical Desc
xv, 266 pages ; 23 cm
Status
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Location | Call Number | Status | Due Date |
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Barrington - Biographies & Memoirs (Main Level) | B MCCULLERS | Checked Out | May 10, 2024 |
Bristol (Rogers Free) - Adult Non-Fiction | 92 McCULLERS | Checked Out | May 11, 2024 |
East Providence (Weaver) - Adult Non-Fiction | 813.52 McCULLERS Sha | Checked Out | May 11, 2024 |
Johnston (Marian J. Mohr) - Adult Non-Fiction | 306.76 M45 | Checked Out | May 10, 2024 |
Middletown - Adult Non-Fiction | 92 MCCULLERS | On Shelf |
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Published
Portland, Oregon : Tin House Books, 2020.
Language
English
ISBN
9781947793286, 1947793284
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Description
"While working as an intern in the archives at the Harry Ransom Center, Jenn Shapland encounters the love letters of Carson McCullers and a woman named Annemarie-letters that are tender, intimate, and unabashed in their feelings. Shapland recognizes herself in the letters' language-but does not see McCullers as history has portrayed her. And so, Shapland is compelled to undertake a recovery of the full narrative and language of McCullers's life: she wades through the therapy transcripts; she stays at McCullers's childhood home, where she lounges in her bathtub and eats delivery pizza; she relives McCullers's days at her beloved Yaddo. As Shapland reckons with the expanding and collapsing distance between her and McCullers, she sees the way McCullers's story has become a way to articulate something about herself. The results reveal something entirely new not only about this one remarkable, walleyed life, but about the way we tell queer love stories. In genre-defying vignettes, Jenn Shapland interweaves her own story with Carson McCullers's to create a vital new portrait of one of America's most beloved writers, and shows us how the writers we love and the stories we tell about ourselves make us who we are"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Shapland, J. (2020). My autobiography of Carson McCullers . Tin House Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Shapland, Jenn, 1987-. 2020. My Autobiography of Carson McCullers. Tin House Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Shapland, Jenn, 1987-. My Autobiography of Carson McCullers Tin House Books, 2020.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Shapland, Jenn. My Autobiography of Carson McCullers Tin House Books, 2020.
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