9780679744610
True North: A Memoir
Jill Ker Conway; Random House Vintage Books
ISBN 13: 9780679744610
Publisher: Vintage Books
Publication Date: 1995
Binding: Softcover
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Conway's The Road from Coorain presents a vivid memoir of coming of age in Australia. In 1960, however, she had reached the limits of that provincial--and irredeemably sexist--society and set off for America. True North--the testament of an extraordinary woman living in an extraordinary time--te lls the profound story of the challenges that confronted Conway, as she sought to establish her public self.
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"Ms. Conway, who confessed in her first memoir to having been raised to see the world 'from the British definition taught to my kind of colonial,' embraces in 'True North' a kind of neocolonial concept of service to women less privileged than herself."
Carol Brightman, New York Times Book Review, 8/21/94
Review:"A thinking woman's memoir...it resounds with ideas about nature, culture and education."
Philadelphia Inquirer
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