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Title Statement | Radical: a life of my own / Xiaolu Guo. |
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Author | Guo, Xiaolu, 1973- |
Publication | New York: Grove Press,2023. |
Edition | First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. |
Extent of Item | 338 pages |
ISBN | 9780802161567 (hardcover) |
Standard Number (UPC, etc.) | 99994648606 |
Other Number | pr07251319 |
Contents | Lexicon of encounters --Lexicon of separations --Lexicon of enduring --Lexicon of impermanence. |
Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-335). |
Summary | "From NBCC-winning author of Nine Continents Xiaolu Guo, Radical is a playful, provocative memoir of a trip to New York that upended her sense of self as a woman, partner, mother, and artist. In the autumn of 2019, Xiaolu Guo traveled to New York to take up a visiting professorship for a year, leaving her child and partner behind in London. The encounter with American culture and people threatened her sense of identity and threw her into a crisis-of meaning, desire, obligation, and selfhood. This is a book about separation-by continents, by language, and from people. It's about being an outsider and the desperate longing to connect. At once a memoir, a lexicon, and an ardent love letter, Radical is an expression of her fascination with Western culture and her nostalgia for Eastern landscapes, and an attempt to describe the space in between"-- |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Authors, Chinese--Biography--21st century |
Authors, English--Biography--21st century | |
Women college teachers--Biography | |
By Name | Guo, Xiaolu,1973- |
Guo, Xiaolu,1973---Travel--New York (State)--New York | |
By Location | New York (N.Y.)--Description and travel |
By Genre | Biographies |
Autobiographies | |
Personal narratives |