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A unique psychological portrait of an urban working-class teacher, and the dynamics of teaching itself.
1987 American Book Award Winner A A A This ambitious and enchanting novel is both modern-day epic and a work of great emotional and spiritual death. Bold in its historical scope, rich in colorful settings, and eminently readable, Confessions of Madame Psyche also reaches inward, toward quieter truths. A A A The novel is narrated by Mei0li Murrow, born in San Francisco in 1895, the illegitimate daughter of a charismatic confidence man and the Chinese prostitute he has "rescued" from the streets. After her mother's early death, Mei-li is left to care of her mercenary half-sister Erika. When the young Mei-li, by pure coincidence, predicts the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, Erika contructs he...
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A major backlist sleeper! 130,000 sold-to-date! A feminist sci-fi novel. The kin of Ata live only for "the dream". Into their midst comes a desperate man who is first subdued and then led on a spiritual journey that, sooner or later, all of us make.
An enormous and timeless story of frustration and love for an aging parent.
Dorothy Bryant papers comprises correspondence, including correspondence with Kay Boyle, Ursula LeGuin, Ruthanne Lum McCunn, Tillie Olsen, May Sarton, and Richard C. Zimler; professional files regarding her publishing company, Ata Books; personalia; research notes, essays, articles, short stories, poems and reviews written by Bryant. Includes program notes written for Aurora Theater Company productions and scripts, reviews, program notes and correspondence related to the following plays: Dear Master, The Panel, Posing for Gaugin, Sad But Glorious Days, Tea with Mrs. Hardy, Trial of Cornelia Connelly, Unloved Letters, Decay of Lying, and Eros in Love, Mothers, Lucie's Station, and The Plague. Scripts and programs for the plays Ring Around Rosie, Say Hay, and Hullabaloo; Bryant wrote the music for these high school plays as Dorothy Ungaretti. Also includes research, correspondence, reviews and production files for books: The Berkeley Pit, Confessions of Madame Psyche, A Day in San Francisco, Ella Price's Journal, Garden of Eros, Killing Wonder, Kin of Ata/The Comforter, Miss Giardino, Myths to Lie By, Prisoners, The Test, Writing a Novel, and Anita Anita.
A version of "The Women's Room," "Ella Price's Journal" presented a re-entry woman before the term was even invented.
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This book presents an exploration of the reinvented utopia that provided second-wave feminists of the 1970s with a conceptual space to articulate the politics of change. Tatiana Teslenko argues that utopian fiction of this decade offered a means of validating the personal as well as the political, and of criticizing a patriarchal social order. Teslenko reveals feminists' attempt through fiction to envision a new political order.