Anthropology of an American Girl

ISBN-13: 9780385527156 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 592 str.

Hilary Thayer Hamann

Opis

This is what it's like to be a high-school-age girl.
To forsake the boyfriend you once adored.
To meet the love of your life, who just happens to be your teacher.
To discover for the first time the power of your body and mind.

This is what it's like to be a college-age woman.
To live through heartbreak.
To suffer the consequences of your choices.
To depend on others for survival but to have no one to trust but yourself.

This is Anthropology of an American Girl.
A literary sensation, this extraordinarily candid novel about the experience of growing up female in America will strike a nerve in readers of all ages.

Recenzje

Remember what it feels like to be seventeen? Eveline Auerbach sounds like somebody many of us knew or were. . . . A realistic, resonant, and universal story. O: The Oprah Magazine
 
As vast and ambitious as the country itself. Carolyn See, The Washington Post

If publishers could figure out a way to turn crack into a book, it d read a lot like [Anthropology of an American Girl]. Hamann s debut traces the sensual, passionate, and lonely interior of a young woman artist growing up in windswept East Hampton at the end of the 1970s. . . . A marvelously complex and tragic figure of disconnection, startlingly real and exposed at all times. Publishers Weekly (starred review)

[A] page-turning read [that] rivets through a rawness of complex emotion . . . Like Jane Austin, George Eliot or Edith Wharton, [Hamann] critiques her era and culture through the tale of a precocious young woman buffeted by the accidents, values and consequences of her age. Providence Journal-Bulletin
 
  Utterly original . . . a rare kind of novel at once sprawling and intimate whose excellence matches its grand ambition. The Dallas Morning News
 
[A] serious descendant of the work of D. H. Lawrence. The Washington Post

O autorze

Hilary Thayer Hamann was born and raised in New York. After her parents divorced, she was shuttled between their respective homes in the Hamptons and the Bronx. She attended New York University, where she received a B.F.A. in Film & Television Production and Dramatic Writing from Tisch School of the Arts, an M.A. in Cinema Studies from the Graduate School of Arts and Science, and a Certificate in Anthropological Filmmaking from NYU s Center for Media, Culture, and History.
 
Ms. Hamann edited and contributed to Categories On The Beauty of Physics (2006), an interdisciplinary educational book that was included in Louisiana State University s list of top 25 non-fiction books written since 1950.
 
As the assistant to Jacques d Amboise, founder and artistic director of the National Dance Institute, Ms. Hamann produced We Real Cool, a short film based on the Gwendolyn Brooks poem, directed by Academy Award-winning director Emile Ardolino. She also coordinated an international exchange with students from America and the then Soviet Union based on literature, music, and art. She has worked in New York s film, publishing, and entertainment industries, and is co-director of Films on the Haywall, a classic film series in Bridgehampton, New York.
 
Ms. Hamann lives in Manhattan and on Long Island.