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33
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Readers
49/100Critics
17/100Scholars
Author:
Joanna Biggs
Publisher:
Ecco
Date:
May 16, 2023
A few years into her marriage and feeling societal pressure to surrender to domesticity, Joanna Biggs found herself longing for a different kind of existence. Was this all there was? She divorced without knowing what would come next. Newly untethered, Joanna returned to the free-spirited writers of her youth and was soon reading in a feverâdesperately searching for evidence of lives that looked more like her own, for the messiness and freedom, for a possible blueprint for intellectual fulfillment.
What The Reviewers Say
A moving biblio-memoir that’s a gift to readers of all ages, especially those in midlife who want to stroll down the memory lane of their formative reading experiences.
A Life of One’s Own is itself the writerly achievement she had hoped for, which means that the larger story of her absorbing, eccentric book is the story of how she came to write it.
[An] unusual blend of memoir, criticism and literary biography.
Full of strange and arresting images from the lives of talented oddballs.
