| The Secret of M. Dulong: A Memoir Contributor(s): Inez, Colette (Author) |
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ISBN: 0299214206 ISBN-13: 9780299214203 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Hardcover Published: August 2005 Annotation: A search for roots and identity has rarely been captured with such irony, unusual insight, and surprising humor as in this memoir of heartbreak and hope. Today a distinguished American poet, Colette Inez first came to the United States when she was eight years old, as an apparent Belgian orphan escorted by two complete strangers. Growing up in post-World War II America, a stranger to her own past, she survived a harrowing adolescence and an increasingly menacing, abusive adoptive family by learning to define her single solace: a developing passion for literature. Facing possible deportation in the 1950s, Inez set out to prove her claim to U.S. citizenship. The result, as she recounts in this eloquent, wrenching memoir, would span two continents, a trail of discovery, and a buried secret: one that ultimately allowed Inez to reconcile her past and present and finally come of age as an artist. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Social Science | Women's Studies - Travel | Essays & Travelogues |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2005005445 |
| Series: Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6.08" W x 9.34" (1.17 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Full of humor, profundity, and obsession, these are tales of writers on peregrine paths. Some set out in search of legends or artistic inspiration; others seek spiritual epiphany or fulfillment of a promise. Their journeys lead them variously to Dracula s castle, Laura Ingalls Wilder s prairie, the Grimms fairy-tale road, Mayan temples, Nathaniel West s California, the Camino de Santiago trail, Scott s Antarctica, the Marquis de Sade s haunted manor, or the sacred city of Varanasi. All of these pilgrimages are worthy journeys redemptive and serious. But a time-honored element of pilgrimage is a suspension of rules, and there is absurdity and exuberance here as well." |
