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The rules do not apply : a memoir
- Title
- The rules do not apply : a memoir / Ariel Levy.
- Author
- Levy, Ariel
- Publication
- New York : Random House, 2017.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 17-3122 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xi, 207 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "A gorgeous, darkly humorous memoir for readers of Cheryl Strayed about a woman overcoming dramatic loss and finding reinvention, as well as a portrait of a generation used to assuming they're entitled to everything--based on this award-winning writer's New Yorker article 'Thanksgiving in Mongolia'"--
- "In 2012, at age 38, when she left on a reporting trip to Mongolia, Ariel Levy thought she had figured it out: she was married, pregnant, successful on her own terms, financially secure. A month later, none of that was true. 'People have been telling me since I was a little girl that I was too fervent, too forceful, too much. I thought I had harnessed the power of my own strength and greed and love to a life that could contain it. But it has exploded.' In gorgeous, moving, humorous, sharp, and unforgettable prose, with pointillist portraits of a girl and then a young woman coming of age, Levy describes her own ill-fated assumptions: thinking that anything is possible, that the old rules do not apply; that marriage doesn't have to mean monogamy; that gender and sexuality are fluid; that aging doesn't have to mean infertility. This is a searing story, written with humor, brilliance, and insight, that is at once personal and universal--a story about realizing that life is so often beyond our control, and how we forge ahead despite that. In telling her own story, Levy has captured a portrait of our time, of the shifting forces in values, women and gender in American culture, of what has changed and what has remained"--
- Subjects
- Levy, Ariel
- Life change events > United States
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- Women journalists > United States > Biography
- Lesbians > United States > Biography
- Sex role > United States
- Young women > United States > Biography
- Miscarriage > United States
- Levy, Ariel > Marriage
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Lesbian Studies
- Call Number
- JFD 17-3122
- ISBN
- 9780812996937
- 0812996933
- LCCN
- 2016043502
- OCLC
- 2016043502
- Author
- Levy, Ariel, author.
- Title
- The rules do not apply : a memoir / Ariel Levy.
- Publisher
- New York : Random House, 2017.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFD 17-3122