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Book of Days

Personal Essays

By Emily Fox Gordon, Phillip Lopate (Preface)

Paperback | 9780385525893

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The sexual politics of a faculty wives dinner. The psychological gamesmanship of an inappropriate therapist. The emotional minefield of an extended family wedding . . .
 
Whatever the subject, Emily Fox Gordon’s disarmingly personal essays are an art form unto themselves—reflecting and revealContinue

The sexual politics of a faculty wives dinner. The psychological gamesmanship of an inappropriate therapist. The emotional minefield of an extended family wedding . . .
 
Whatever the subject, Emily Fox Gordon’s disarmingly personal essays are an art form unto themselves—reflecting and revealing, like mirrors in a maze, the seemingly endless ways a woman can lose herself in the modern world. With piercing humor and merciless precision, Gordon zigzags her way through “the unevolved paradise” of academia, with its dying breeds of bohemians, adulterers, and flirts, then stumbles through the perils and pleasures of psychotherapy, hoping to find a narrative for her life. Along the way, she encounters textbook feminists, partying philosophers, perfectionist moms, and an unlikely kinship with Kafka—in a brilliant collection of essays that challenge our sacred institutions, defy our expectations, and define our lives.

Critics

  • Not a Memoir

    At 11 years old, Emily Fox Gordon was on a psychiatrist’s couch. At 18, after several other psycho­therapeutic ventures and a suicide attempt, she was dispatched to Austen Riggs, the Massachusetts psychiatric hospital, for a stay that lasted as long ... (read full critics)

    nytimes published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

  • Book review: 'Book of Days' by Emily Fox Gordon

    In an era rife with confessional memoirs comes this personal essay collection by Emily Fox Gordon. She's the author of two actual memoirs, Mockingbird Years: A Life In and Out of Therapy and Are You Happy? A Childhood Remembered, as well as the novel ... (read full critics)

    dallasnews published on Fri, 10 Sep 2010

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Book Details

  • English Books
  • Paperback 320 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0385525893
  • ISBN-13: 9780385525893
  • Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
  • Pub date: Aug 17, 2010
  • Dimensions: 1297 mm x 839 mm x 116 mm Just how big is that?
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