Edition |
Unabridged. |
Description |
7 audio discs (8 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
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CD audio |
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Compact discs. |
Performer |
Read by Robin Miles, Elisabeth Rodgers, Kevin Kenerly, Kyla Garcia, Steven Jay Cohen, Dara Rosenberg, Janet Song, Bronson Pinchot, and Feodor Chin. |
Summary |
Twenty-five writers explore a trait inherited from a parent, reflecting on how it affects their lives--how it shifts their relationship to that parent (sometimes posthumously) and to their sense of self. |
Contents |
Introduction / Lise Funderburg -- Predictions / Laura van den Berg -- Curtains / Sallie Tisdale -- Lies my parents (never but maybe should've) told me / Shukree Hassan Tilghman -- Better angels / Clifford Thompson -- The only light we've got / Angelique Stevens -- Household idols / Avi Steinberg -- Just say the word / Lizzie Skurnick -- All knotted up / Dana Prescott -- Sisters / Ann Patchett -- Man's poison / Kyoko Mori -- Unlived lives / Laura Miller -- A measure of perversity / Marc Mewshaw -- Off, off, off, off, off / Daniel Mendelsohn -- What we keep / Donna Masini -- My story about my mother / Mat johnson -- Never have just one boss / Susan Ito -- Spending the sparkle / Jane Hamilton -- Around the table / Lauren Grodstein -- This truth about chaos / John Freeman -- No indifferent place / Carolyn Ferrell -- And Niriko makes four / Lolis Eric Elie -- Fragments from the long game / Kate Carroll de Gutes -- Self-made men / Leland Cheuk -- The nut doesn't fall far from the fucking nut tree / S. Bear Bergman -- The feeding gene / Karen Grigsby Bates. |
Subject |
Authors, American -- Family relationships.
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Authors, American -- Biography.
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Identity (Psychology) -- United States.
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Parenting -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
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Parent and child -- United States.
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Self.
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays.
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HUMOR / Form / Essays.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / General.
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Authors, American. (OCoLC)fst00821764
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Authors, American -- Family relationships.
(OCoLC)fst00821776
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Identity (Psychology) (OCoLC)fst00966892
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Parent and child. (OCoLC)fst01053308
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Parenting -- Psychological aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01053419
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Self. (OCoLC)fst01111441
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Genre/Form |
Audiobooks. (OCoLC)fst01726208
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Essays. (OCoLC)fst01919922
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Audiobooks.
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Essays.
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Added Author |
Funderburg, Lise, editor, writer of introduction.
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Miles, Robin, narrator.
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Rodgers, Elisabeth S., narrator.
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Kenerly, Kevin, narrator.
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Garcia, Kyla, narrator.
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Cohen, Steven Jay, narrator.
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Rosenberg, Dara, narrator.
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Song, Janet, narrator.
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Pinchot, Bronson, narrator.
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Chin, Feodor, narrator.
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Added Title |
Writers on their parents |
ISBN |
9781094082103 (sound recording ; Blackstone Library CD) |
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1094082104 (sound recording ; Blackstone Library CD) |
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9781094082110 (sound recording ; Blackstone Retail CD) |
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1094082112 (sound recording ; Blackstone Retail CD) |
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