Girls Like Us: Forty Extraordinary Women Celebrate Girlhood in Story, Poetry, and Song Tapa blanda - 1999

We all have moments from childhood that have molded our perceptions of ourselves and our lives. In Girls Like Us forty accomplished and influential women share these tender and uplifting moments from their own childhoods and teenage years. Isabel Allende tells of her parents' priceless gift in encouraging her to express her creativity; Faye Wattleton describes how a checkered and difficult childhood shaped her into the determined leader she is today; novelist Amy Tan explores the life of a young girl and her relationship to her mother in The Joy Luck Club. The book includes photographs of some of the contributors at the age they appear in their stories, as well as brief biographies of each. Girls Like Us celebrates the poignant coming-of-age moments experienced by prominent women of this century. This book is a great anthology for everyone wishing to cultivate and remember what it is to be young again.

Detalles

• Título Girls Like Us: Forty Extraordinary Women Celebrate Girlhood in Story, Poetry, and Song
• Autor Gina Misiroglu (Editor)
• Encuadernación Tapa blanda
• Edición First Printing
• Páginas 224
• Volúmenes 1
• Idioma ENG
• Editorial New World Library, Novato, CA
• Fecha de publicación March 12, 1999
• ISBN 9781577310846 / 1577310845
• Peso 1 libras (0.45 kg)
• Dimensiones 9 x 7 x 0.79 pulgadas (22.86 x 17.78 x 2.01 cm)
• Library of Congress subjects Women, Girls
• Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 98-53428
• Dewey Decimal Code B