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Bich Minh Nguyen
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Brent Staples
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Daisy Hernández
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E. Lynn Harris
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Esmeralda Santiago
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Howard Zinn
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Joe Queenan
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Kate Simon
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Kim Barnes
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Luis J. Rodriguez
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Mary Childers
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Mary Karr
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Maya Angelou
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Michael C. Keith
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Michael Patrick MacDonald
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Michelle Tea
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Monica Wood
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Oscar Hijuelos
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Paul Clemens
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Pete Hamill
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Richard Hoffman
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Richard Rodriguez
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Rick Bragg
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Rosemary L. Bray
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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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Russell Baker
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Sandra Scofield
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Tobias Wolff
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Vivian Gornick
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bell hooks
pubblicato da
University of Georgia Press
Nonfiction storytelling is at its best in this anthology of excerpts from memoirs by thirty authorssome eminent, some less well knownwho grew up tough and talented in working-class America. Their stories, selected from literary memoirs published between 1982 and 2014, cover episodes from childhood to young adulthood within a spectrum of life-changing experiences. Although diverse ethnically, racially, geographically, and in sexual orientation, these writers share a youthful precocity and determination to find opportunity where little appeared to exist.
All of these perspectives are explored within the larger context of economic insecuritya needed perspective in this time of growing inequality. These memoirists grew up in families that led "hardscrabble" lives in which struggle and strenuous effort were the norm. Their stories offer insight on the realities of class in America, as well as inspiration and hope.
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