Self-Made Man
One Woman's Year Disguised as a Man
$37.60
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
26 December 2006
Summary
A journalist’s provocative and spellbinding account of her eighteen months spent disguised as a man.
Norah Vincent became an instant media sensation with the publication of Self-Made Man, her take on just how hard it is to be a man, even in a man’s world. Following in the tradition of John Howard Griffin (Black Like Me), Vincent spent a year and a half disguised as her male alter ego, Ned, exploring what men are like when women aren’t around. As Ned, she joined a bow…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143038702 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143038702 |
| Author: | Norah Vincent |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Penguin USA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 26 December 2006 |
| Weight: | 227g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 134mm x 17mm |
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Critics Review
Vincents account of how she became a man is undeniably fascinating. (“Los Angeles Times Book World”)
A thoughtful, entertaining piece of first-person investigative journalism … Self-Made Man transcends its premise altogether… . So rich and so audacious … [I was] hooked from Page 1. (David Kamp, The New York Times Book Review)Vincents account of how she became a man is undeniably fascinating. (Los Angeles Times Book World)Eye-opening … Self-Made Man will make many women think twice about coveting male privilege and make any man feel grateful that his gender is better understood. (The Washington Post)[Vincent] can be as perspicuous and exact as Joan Didion or Gloria Steinem at nailing a hitherto disregarded truth about the sexes in a single elegant and witty phrase… . This is a brave and often fascinating book, with Vincent … offering us perspectives that are entirely fresh and new. (The Times,London)
About The Author
Norah Vincent
Norah Vincent (1968-2022) was the New York Times bestselling author of the nonfiction books Self-Made Man: One Woman’s Year Disguised as a Man and Voluntary Madness: Lost and Found in the Mental Healthcare System, as well as two works of fiction: Thy Neighbor and Adeline: A Novel of Virginia Woolf. Formerly an op-ed columnist for the Los Angeles Times, her work also appeared in the New York Times, the New Republic, and the Washington Post, and she contributed regularly to Salon, the Advocate, and the Village Voice. She was a longtime resident of New York City before her passing in 2022.
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