Phyllis Barber grew up in Las Vegas, in the midst of a devout Mormon family. As a small child, she began to feel uneasy with her faith's all-pervasive certainty and righteousness. As she grew, the tensions between her religious beliefs and her desire for a larger, more cultured life also grew. She studied piano and dance, performed with a high school precision dance team, worked as an accompanist in a ballet studio and as a model.
"How I Got Cultured"is a moving, candid, and sometimes hilarious account of an American adolescence, negotiated between the strictures of a demanding faith and...
Phyllis Barber grew up in Las Vegas, in the midst of a devout Mormon family. As a small child, she began to feel uneasy with her faith's all-pervasive...
When Phyllis Barber's thirty-three-year marriage disintegrated, she had to redefine herself as a woman, mother, and artist. She also had to reconcile the jarring dissonance between her idealistic Mormon vision of marriage as a relationship that would endure through all eternity, and the painful reality of mutual infidelities and disparate needs. "Raw Edges" is Barber's moving account of her journey through the 'lean years' that followed her divorce and her memories of a long, eventful marriage between two gifted and loving people. Barber's path to a new identity was rocky and often deeply...
When Phyllis Barber's thirty-three-year marriage disintegrated, she had to redefine herself as a woman, mother, and artist. She also had to reconcile ...
When Phyllis Barber s thirty-three-year marriage ended, she had to redefine herself as a woman, a mother, and an artist. "Raw Edges" is her moving account of the lean years that followed her divorce. It is interwoven with a narrative of the marriage of two gifted people that begins with sealing in a Mormon temple, endures through the birth of four sons and the development of two careers, and founders when the couple s personal needs no longer match their aspirations or the rigid strictures of Mormon life. "Raw Edges" reflects the predicament that many women experience as their marriages...
When Phyllis Barber s thirty-three-year marriage ended, she had to redefine herself as a woman, a mother, and an artist. "Raw Edges" is her moving ...
