My Mother's House (eBook)

A Memoir

David Armand (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
192 Seiten
Texas Review Press (Verlag)
978-1-68003-074-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Set in the bucolic, yet brutal South of his youth, My Mother's House is a memoir by novelist David Armand. It recounts the young author's early memories of being born to a schizophrenic mother, then given up for adoption, only to be raised in a home with an alcoholic and abusive step-father. In this sharply-remembered portrait of the people and places that shaped him, Armand paints his seemingly negative experiences with a sympathetic and understanding brush. As the reader follows Armand through his childhood and later into adult lifewhen he is reunited with his mother after she makes a failed suicide attempta surprisingly new world of hope and possibility is rendered, despite the overwhelming challenges of this reunion. [Armands] writing is reminiscent of Hemingway: straightforward descriptions of manly action punctuated by laconic dialogue.--New York Journal of Books Armand writes in a comfortingly familiar literary voice that blends Ernest Hemingway's laconic but rhythmically complicated explorations of the mysteries of masculinity with William Faulkner's more fabulist, Southern Gothic twang. It's a heady, seductively intoxicating combination.--Richmond Times-Dispatch

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.3.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 1-68003-074-4 / 1680030744
• ISBN-13: 978-1-68003-074-7 / 9781680030747