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Searching for Mercy Street : my journey back to my mother, Anne Sexton / Linda Gray Sexton.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint, [2011]Description: 325 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781582437446
  • 1582437440
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
The letter -- In exile -- First metaphors -- A maker of myths -- More than myself -- Companionship -- Live or die -- Independence -- The making of a literary executor -- The rowing endeth -- Afterward -- Self-portrait -- Between two worlds -- In search of a biographer -- Call me mother -- Exposures -- On the back of love -- The starting point -- Mercy Street.
Summary: An honest, unsparing account of the anguish and fierce love that bound a brilliant, difficult mother and her daughter she left behind when she committed suicide.Summary: Linda Gray Sexton's critically acclaimed memoir is an honest, unsparing account of the anguish and fierce love that bound a brilliant, difficult mother and daughter she left behind. Linda Sexton was twenty-one when her mother killed herself, and now she looks back, remembers, and tries to come to terms with her mother's life. Life with Anne was a wild mixture of suicidal depression and manic happiness, inappropriate behavior and midnight trips to the psychiatric ward. Anne taught Linda how to write, how to see, how to imagine--and only Linda could have written a book that captures so vividly the intimate details and lingering emotions of their life together. Searching for Mercy Street speaks to everyone who admires Anne Sexton and to every daughter or son who knows the pain of an imperfect childhood.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Biography SEXTON, L. S518 Available 33111010450118
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

An honest, intimate memoir that offers a "candid, often painful depiction of a daughter's struggles to come to terms with her powerful and emotionally troubled mother"-the poet Anne Sexton ( New York Times )

This is an honest, unsparing account of the anguish and fierce love that bound a difficult mother and the daughter she left behind. Linda Sexton was 21 when her mother killed herself, and now she looks back, remembers, and tries to come to terms with her mother's life.

Growing up with Anne Sexton was a wild mixture of suicidal depression and manic happiness, inappropriate behavior and midnight trips to the psychiatric ward. Anne taught Linda how to write, how to see, how to imagine-and only Linda could have written a book that captures so vividly the intimate details and lingering emotions of their life together. Searching for Mercy Street speaks to everyone who admires Anne Sexton and to every daughter or son who knows the pain of an imperfect childhood.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-321).

The letter -- In exile -- First metaphors -- A maker of myths -- More than myself -- Companionship -- Live or die -- Independence -- The making of a literary executor -- The rowing endeth -- Afterward -- Self-portrait -- Between two worlds -- In search of a biographer -- Call me mother -- Exposures -- On the back of love -- The starting point -- Mercy Street.

An honest, unsparing account of the anguish and fierce love that bound a brilliant, difficult mother and her daughter she left behind when she committed suicide.

Linda Gray Sexton's critically acclaimed memoir is an honest, unsparing account of the anguish and fierce love that bound a brilliant, difficult mother and daughter she left behind. Linda Sexton was twenty-one when her mother killed herself, and now she looks back, remembers, and tries to come to terms with her mother's life. Life with Anne was a wild mixture of suicidal depression and manic happiness, inappropriate behavior and midnight trips to the psychiatric ward. Anne taught Linda how to write, how to see, how to imagine--and only Linda could have written a book that captures so vividly the intimate details and lingering emotions of their life together. Searching for Mercy Street speaks to everyone who admires Anne Sexton and to every daughter or son who knows the pain of an imperfect childhood.

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