At Home in the World : A Memoir (CD-Audio)

from TheAmpersand

You could argue that there are two ways look at "At Home in the World." An explicitly political view might have it that Joyce Maynard was, in her youth, the logical result of a restrictive, pointedly per-feminist society. Her father was a frustrated painter and an alcoholic, her mother a Harvard/...

from Eye_Gee

I have to give this memoir 4 stars because I could hardly put it down once I started it. The fact that the author's life was a train wreck, and that I felt like a voyeur reading it at times, takes nothing away from her ability to achieve what she wanted -- to write a brutally honest book about th...

from Y2Ash

At Home in the World is a brutally honest memoir by Joyce Maynard. She describes her early life with highly accomplished parents; her father was an alcoholic and her mother a housewife. Both wanted to do more with their lives but were regulated to less than fufilling roles. Her older sister, Rona...

from Bat

Story of brodcaster and journalist Joyce Maynard's relationship with legendary writer JD Salinger, who was 35 years older. I , ihaven't read anything else about Salinger, so can't vouch for the balance of the account. But it seems to be an honest, believeable, in-depth account considering that th...

from Citizenjoyce

Word to the wise, before you try to destroy someone's life you better make sure she's not a writer.