My Life as a Boy

My Life as a Boy
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A Woman's Story

مشارکت: عنوان و توضیح کوتاه هر کتاب را ترجمه کنید این ترجمه بعد از تایید با نام شما در سایت نمایش داده خواهد شد.
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فرمت کتاب

ebook

تاریخ انتشار

1997

نویسنده

Kim Chernin

ناشر

Algonquin Books

شابک

9781565127869
  • اطلاعات
  • نقد و بررسی
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نقد و بررسی

Publisher's Weekly

January 6, 1997
"If a woman in her thirties turns into a boy, that may mean she's having trouble getting out of the place she's in. She requires the instinctive, wholly natural ruthlessness of a boy." Chernin (In My Father's Garden) is gripped by this wild "transformation imperative" when she falls head over heels with "Hadamar," a beautiful, sophisticated German Jewish woman from a prominent Berkeley family. Restless in her second marriage to a sensitive doctor, and with her only daughter off at college, the dreamy, dependent Chernin submerges herself in an oral history project. While visiting Edith, a woman she has been interviewing about growing up in Europe, Chernin encounters Edith's niece, Hadamar, and senses almost immediately that she will have an intense relationship with this dazzling woman that will end painfully, yet will change her life. ("The ending of it seemed as clearly stated as its moody, contradictory beginning.... I felt that I had lost her even before I told her my name.") The pair begin an exquisitely delicate and indirect courtship that propels Chernin into an incredible shift of sexual orientation. As she grows more confident in her "boyhood," more independent and adventurous, Chernin leaves her husband. Finally, when her romance with Hadamar ends in an unexpected betrayal, she accepts the event as a rite of passage, a doorway to her life among women. Although action is minimal, Chernin's memoir is a sensitive rendering of states of love and states of being, rich with insight into the connection between identity and desire. First serial to Utne Reader.



Booklist

May 15, 1997
In this elliptical memoir, feminist author Chernin describes the breakup of her long-term marriage and her infatuation with another woman. In order to cast off her old life, she finds that she needs to call on parts of herself never before tested, such as "the capacity to act, the freedom to take, the license to choose desire," in short, "the life of a boy." Dubbing this process the "transformational imperative," she proceeds to remake herself by cutting off her hair, becoming lithe and muscular, and falling passionately in love with a cultured, sophisticated woman named Hadamar. In describing their rocky courtship, she also conveys the fact that she is well aware of what she is risking: "my home, security, a devoted man's passionate love," all for a woman "who might throw me over and break my heart." Possessed of a deep awareness of the mystery at the heart of all relationships, Chernin has written a delicate and thoughtful meditation on finding the courage to transform your life despite the risks such a process entails. ((Reviewed May 15, 1997))(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 1997, American Library Association.)




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