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基本信息·出版社：Algonquin Books
·页码：255 页
·出版日期：2008年02月
·ISBN：1565125150
·International Standard Book Number：1565125150
·条形码：9781565125155
·EAN：9781565125155
·装帧：精装
·正文语种：英语
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Felicia Sullivan's volatile, beautiful, deceitful, drug-addicted mother disappeared on the night Sullivan graduated from college, and has not been seen or heard from in the ten years since. Sullivan, who grew up on the tough streets of Brooklyn in the 1980s, now looks back on her childhood—lived among drug dealers, users, and substitute fathers. Sullivan became her mother's keeper, taking her to the hospital when she overdosed, withstanding her narcissistic rages, succumbing to the abuse or indifference of so-called stepfathers, and always wondering why her mother would never reveal the truth about the father she'd never met.
Ashamed of her past, Sullivan invented a persona to show the world. Yet despite her Ivy League education and numerous accomplishments, she, like her mother, eventually succumbed to alcohol and drug abuse. She wrote
The Sky Isn't Visible from Here, a testament to the resilience of the human spirit, when she realized it was time to kill her own creation.
作者简介 Felicia C. Sullivan is a graduate of the Columbia University MFA program. She is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee and a Best American Essays notable. Her work has appeared in the
Huffington Post, Swink, Post Road, Mississippi Review, and
Pindeldyboz and in the anthologies
Homewrecker: An Atlas of Illicit Loves and
Money Changes Everything, among others. Sullivan was the recipient of the 2005 Tin House memoir fellowship, and in 2001, she founded the critically acclaimed literary journal
Small Spiral Notebook. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
媒体推荐 "A poignant memoir."-- Publishers Weekly (
Publishers Weekly )
"Sullivan's bracing, pared-to-the-bone prose evokes compassion by being impressively free of the narcissistic self-worship that so often infects books of this stripe."--Kirkus (
Kirkus Reviews )
A poignant memoir.-- Publishers Weekly (
Publishers Weekly )
Sullivan's bracing, pared-to-the-bone prose evokes compassion by being impressively free of the narcissistic self-worship that so often infects books of this stripe.--Kirkus (
Kirkus Reviews )
专业书评 "The story is a Brooklyn Cinderella's; the endearing new voice is fresh. Funny, fierce, wobbling like a colt on new legs, Sullivan leaps from these pages as a fighter."—Lisa Dierbeck, author of
One Pill Makes You Smaller
