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Lädt ... Cakewalk: A Memoirvon Kate Moses
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Adult nonfiction; memoir. It took me a while to get into this one--for the first 50 pages or so I just couldn't bring myself to care, but it did get better--interesting, even, as the author reveals more about the dysfunctionality of her parents and the progress she makes in her writing career. There are also a couple recipes in here that I wouldn't mind trying. ( ) This is the best book I've read in a long time. I savored this author's every description as much as the cake recipes at the end of each chapter. She writes beautifully-turned phrases both shiny-sweet and hauntingly sad about growing up and into the person she is now. There is so much left unsaid, just hinted at, that leaves me wanting to read more. Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
"Growing up in the 1960s and '70s, Kate Moses was surrounded by sugar: Twinkies in the basement freezer, honey on the fried chicken, Baby Ruth bars in her father's sock drawer. But sweetness of the more intangible variety was harder to come by. Her parents were disastrously mismatched, far too preoccupied with their mutual misery to notice its effects on their kids. A frustrated artist, Kate's beautiful, capricious mother lived in a constant state of creative and marital emergency, enlisting Kate as her confidante--'We're the girls, we have to stick together'-- and instructing her three children to refer to her in public as their babysitter. Kate's father was aloof, ambitious, and prone to blasts of withering abuse increasingly directed at the daughter who found herself standing between her embattled parents. Kate looked for comfort in the imaginary worlds of books and found refuge in the kitchen, where she taught herself to bake and entered the one realm where she was able to wield control. Telling her own story with the same lyricism, compassion, and eye for lush detail she brings to her fiction, coupled with the candor and humor she is known for in her personal essays, Kate Moses leavens each tale of her coming-of-age in Cakewalk with a recipe from her lifetime of confectionary obsession"--Cover, p. 2. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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