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And then we grew up : on creativity, potential, and the imperfect art of adulthood / Rachel Friedman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: [New York] : Penguin Books, [2019]Description: 234 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780143132127
  • 0143132121
Subject(s):
Contents:
Potential -- I was going to be an art monster instead -- On "making it" -- Never quit! (but maybe quit) -- Freedom's just another word -- Never compromise! (but definitely compromise) -- The kingdom of ordinary time -- I danced myself out of the womb -- The ghost ship that didn't carry us -- Coda.
Summary: Friedman was a serious violinist as a kid, but quit music in college. She never stopped fantasizing about what life would have been like if she hadn't put down her bow. Tracking down childhood friends from Interlochen Arts Camp, she questioned how their early creative ambitions translated into adult careers, relationships, and identities. Here she shares unexpected insights about creativity and contentment. -- adapted from back cover
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

One of Publishers Weekly 's Best Books of 2019

A journey through the many ways to live an artistic life-from the flashy and famous to the quiet and steady-full of unexpected insights about creativity and contentment,from the author of The Good Girl's Guide to Getting Lost .

Rachel Friedman was a serious violist as a kid. She quit music in college but never stopped fantasizing about what her life might be like if she had never put down her bow. Years later, a freelance writer in New York, she again finds herself struggling with her fantasy of an artist's life versus its much more complicated reality. In search of answers, she decides to track down her childhood friends from Interlochen, a prestigious arts camp she attended, full of aspiring actors, artists, dancers, and musicians, to find out how their early creative ambitions have translated into adult careers, relationships, and identities.

Rachel's conversations with these men and women spark nuanced revelations about creativity and being an artist- that it doesn't have to be all or nothing, that success isn't always linear, that sometimes it's okay to quit. And Then We Grew Up is for anyone who has given up a childhood dream and wondered "what-if?", for those who have aspired to do what they love and had doubts along the way, and for all whose careers fall somewhere between emerging and established. Warm, whip-smart, and insightful, it offers inspiration for finding creative fulfillment wherever we end up in life.

Place of publication taken from publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references.

Potential -- I was going to be an art monster instead -- On "making it" -- Never quit! (but maybe quit) -- Freedom's just another word -- Never compromise! (but definitely compromise) -- The kingdom of ordinary time -- I danced myself out of the womb -- The ghost ship that didn't carry us -- Coda.

Friedman was a serious violinist as a kid, but quit music in college. She never stopped fantasizing about what life would have been like if she hadn't put down her bow. Tracking down childhood friends from Interlochen Arts Camp, she questioned how their early creative ambitions translated into adult careers, relationships, and identities. Here she shares unexpected insights about creativity and contentment. -- adapted from back cover

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