Hungry for the World
A Memoir
$35.99
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
4 May 2001
Summary
Fans of Educated by Tara Westover are sure to fall for this “beautifully written” narrative (The New York Times Book Review) of self-discovery and personal triumph from the author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated memoir In the Wilderness.
Here is the story of how an intelligent and passionate young woman, yearning for an understanding of the world beyond her insular family life, found her way.
On the day of her 1976 high school graduation in Lewiston,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780385720441 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0385720440 |
| Author: | Kim Barnes |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House USA Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 4 May 2001 |
| Weight: | 247g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 132mm x 14mm |
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Critics Review
‘Beautifully written’. We read her story and bleed for her.‘?The New York Times
“Beautifully written … We read her story and bleed for her.” —The New York Times Book Review
“It is refreshing to read such a moving story of human regeneration.” —Fort Worth Star Telegram
About The Author
Kim Barnes
Kim Barnes is the author of the novel Finding Caruso and two memoirs, In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country—a finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prize—and Hungry for the World. She is coeditor with Mary Clearman Blew of Circle of Women: An Anthology of Contemporary Western Women Writers, and with Claire Davis of Kiss Tomorrow Hello: Notes from the Midlife Underground by Twenty-Five Women Over Forty. Her essays, stories, and poems have appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, including The Georgia Review, Shenandoah, MORE magazine, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology. She teaches writing at the University of Idaho and lives with her husband, the poet Robert Wrigley, on Moscow Mountain.
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