Two or Three Things I Know for Sure - Softcover

Allison, Dorothy.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0006548814 ISBN 13: 9780006548812

Publisher: DUTTON. NY 1995, 1995

Synopsis

"Bastard Out of Carolina", nominated for the 1992 National Book Award for fiction, introduced Dorothy Allison as one of the most passionate and gifted writers of her generation. Now, in "Two or Three Things I Know for Sure", she takes a probing look at her family's history to give us a lyrical, complex memoir that explores how the gossip of one generation can become legends for the next. "Two or Three Things I Know for Sure" tells the story of the Gibson women - sisters, cousins, daughters, and aunts - and the men who loved them, often abused them, and nonetheless, shared their destinies. With luminous clarity, Allison explores how desire surprises and what power feels like to a young girl as she confronts abuse. As always, Dorothy Allison is provocative, confrontational, and brutally honest. "Two or Three Things I Know for Sure", steeped in the hard-won wisdom of experience, expresses the strength of her unique vision with beauty and eloquence.

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About the Author

Dorothy Allison is the bestselling author of several novels including Bastard Out of Carolina, Cavedweller, and Two Or Three Things I Know For Sure, which are available from Brilliance Audio. The recipient of numerous awards, she has been the subject of many profiles and a short documentary film of her life, Two or Three Things but Nothing For Sure. She lives in San Francisco.

From Publishers Weekly

Allison's much-praised novel Bastard Out of Carolina was inspired by her childhood in Greenville, S.C., but in this memoir, adapted from a performance piece, she cuts even closer to the bone. "We don't have a family Bible?" the author's fourth-grade self asks her aunt. "Child, some days we don't even have a family," comes the response. If Allison suffered horrors, notably rape by her stepfather when she was five, she has transmuted pain into stories, gaining control with maturity. Indeed, her title prefaces several hard-won aphorisms she uses to counterpoint her memories: "No one is as hard as my uncles had to pretend to be." Her mother was a beauty, as was her sister, but Dorothy, smart and plain, felt a legacy of ugliness, one she shook off slowly as her feminism and her heart led her to lesbian relationships, often painful, finally rewarding. She is now, in her 40s, a new mother, and her stories?and life?are a triumph of love over cruelty. Read it aloud and savor the rhythms. Photos not seen by PW. Author tour.
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Edition details

• Publisher: DUTTON. NY 1995
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0006548814
• ISBN 13: 9780006548812
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 120