Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.36 (790 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0307951103 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-13 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A delectable memoir about the transformative power of food, Blue Plate Special is a deeply personal narrative in which food becomes the vehicle for exploring a life. Hungry not just for food, but for love and a sense of belonging, Christensen writes honestly about her struggle to find the contentment she has always yearned for. A beautifully written account of a knockabout life, full of sorrows, pleasures—and, of course, food—Blue Plate Special is a delicious reading experience.. Here, novelist Kate Christensen tells her own story, from her unorthodox childhood in 1960s Berkeley as the daughter of a legal activist who ruled the house with his fists to her extraordinary success as a PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author
A writer ruled by her appetites This memoir about author Kate Christensen's life is a compulsively readable account of a truly odd upbringing and an itinerant (and extended) young adulthood. The author frames the circumstances of her life around three dominant themes: food and sex, and to a lesser extent, writing. Her ravenous hunger for each makes the subtitle of this book, "An Autobiography of My Appetites," more than apt.The first part of the book, dealing with her early life as the child of hippie parents, was fascinating, though at the same time disturbing. I had a lot of sympathy for the young Kate Christensen.. Meh. Rebelgirl I dunnopretty self indulgent. Not a great book. The recipes were just thrown in, really had no relevance to the chapters.. "Moving but frustrating memoir" according to K. Blaine. "Blue Plate Special," a memoir by writer Kate Christensen, begins when she is about two years old with a memory that will haunt her for the rest of her life. If anyone doubts the tremendous influence of parents on their children, both for good and ill, you have only to read this searing and effective memoir. At two, Kate sees her adored but remote father beat her overwhelmed mother at the breakfast table and then leave for work as if it were an ordinary day. This event, and others like it, forever affects the way Kate responds to men and influences nearly every choice of man that she m
The oldest daughter of a Marxist lawyer and Waldorf-educated cellist, Christensen always modeled herself after her tough, uncompromising, iconoclastic father, whose manic rages nonetheless ruptured the family, sending the Christensen, her mother, and two sisters to start life in Tempe, Ariz., where her mother took up graduate studies in psychology. (July) . The three girls flourished, immersed in the era's consciousness-raising feminist literature and instant or experimental food, recipes for which Christensen dandles along her narrative without much ado (e.g., farmers fritters, camping peas ). From P