Ladies Night at the Dreamland (Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction Ser.)
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.40 (872 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0820349135 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 216 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-25 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The result is a series of essays that highlight lives as varied, troubled, and spirited as America itself.. In this lyrical collection, Sonja Livingston weaves together strands of research and imagination to conjure figures from history, literature, legend, and personal memory
Her first book, Ghostbread (Georgia), won the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Book Prize for Nonfiction. She is also the author of the recent essay collection Queen of the Fall: A Memoir of Girls and Goddesses. Sonja Livingston is an assistant professor in the MFA Program at the University of Memphis.
Line by line, the writing sings. (Maria Browning Chapter16) . The author calls her startlingly original essays literary nonfiction, but some read more like historical fiction, spun as they are from documented sources; and somea brief evocation of Virginia Dare, for exampleread like lyrical prose poems. (Hans Rollman PopMatters)Livingston engages her subjects in a deeply personal way, bringing her own fascination, sympathy, and identification with them into her accounts. (Lee Martin author of The Bright Forever)A swirling, wise dream of a book, filled with gorgeous writing and a poignant crowd of characters, rescued from the stream of history with ardent insight. Wise, fresh, captivating essays. Livingston’s visceral understanding of the myriad ways the world confines women and destroys them, robbing them of the fullness of what they might have been, gives the stories in Ladies Night a power they wouldn’t o
Kristine Fisher said Ladies Night at the Dreamland by Sonja Livingston is a. Ladies Night at the Dreamland by Sonja Livingston is a free NetGalley ebook that I read in late February.I need to preface my review by saying that this is not the book I expected it to be. I had thought that it would be a standard-issue, single-plot novel, but it turned out to be neither-here-nor-there, meandering, near-beat-poem prose. It was first-person, yet above the world and a. Livingston is a great writer. JDC I love how Livingston has such a lyrical touch to her writing. She has a way with discussing her personal experiences and other women's tragedies that leaves me thinking about similar stories in such a way that I am a better person for having read them. I love this cook.. "and I highly recommend all of them" according to Susan Fitzgerald. I have read all three of Sonja Livingston's nonfiction books, and I highly recommend all of them. Ladies Night is hauntingly beautiful and touching.