"A brave, enlightening, compassionate and beautifully written
work in a new genre-the memoir evoked through a prism
of sharply analytic critical theory."-joyce Carol Oates
""A book to cherish."-Elaine Showalter
""Torgovnick's scholarly background and life experience inform
her readings of both American culture and her own past; she
has found an essayist's voice that is very much her own."
-Kirkus Reviews
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