| Bright Precious Thing: A Memoir Contributor(s): Caldwell, Gail (Author) |
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ISBN: 0525510052 ISBN-13: 9780525510055 Publisher: Random House OUR PRICE: $24.30 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2020 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory - History | Women |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2019026880 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.6" W x 8.6" (0.70 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From the New York Times bestselling author of Let's Take the Long Way Home comes a moving memoir about how the women's movement revolutionized and saved her life, from the 1960s to the #MeToo era. In a voice as candid as it is evocative, Gail Caldwell traces a path from her west Texas girlhood through her emergence as a young daredevil, then as a feminist--a journey that reflected seismic shifts in the culture itself. Caldwell's travels took her to California and Mexico and dark country roads, and the dangers she encountered were rivaled only by the personal demons she faced. Bright Precious Thing is the captivating story of a woman's odyssey, her search for adventure giving way to something more profound: the evolution of a writer and a woman, a struggle to embrace one's life as a precious thing. Told against a contrasting backdrop of the present day, including the author's friendship with a young neighborhood girl, Bright Precious Thing unfolds with the same heart and narrative grace of Caldwell's Let's Take the Long Way Home, called "a lovely gift to readers" by The Washington Post. Bright Precious Thing is a book about finding, then protecting, what we cherish most. |