An Abbreviated Life Paperback / softback - 2017
by Ariel Leve
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- Title An Abbreviated Life
- Author Ariel Leve
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial
- Date 2017-06-13
- Bookseller's Inventory # ria9780062269461_inp
- ISBN 9780062269461 / 0062269461
- Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.8 in (20.57 x 13.97 x 2.03 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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From the rear cover
In this extraordinary memoir, Ariel Leve takes us through the looking glass into the life of an only child growing up under siege. The unconventional world Ariel inhabited was dominated by her mother, a gifted but unstable poet without boundaries or self-restraint. Mother and daughter lived in a penthouse on Manhattan's Upper East Side, the setting for raucous parties that attracted New York's cultural and intellectual elite: Gloria Steinem, Norman Mailer, and Andy Warhol, to name a few. For all its glamour, this was a universe that was neither predictable nor safe.
With her beloved father living in Southeast Asia, young Ariel was left to navigate an emotionally perilous landscape alone. It took four decades before she was able to make sense of the aftershocks of childhood. Unflinchingly, and with ferocious candor, Leve trains her writer's eye on the harrowing circumstances of her life with (and without) her mother, and transforms the chaos into art.
In stripped-down, elegant prose, Leve paints an indelible portrait of her upbringing and the long fight to tunnel her way out of the darkness. An Abbreviated Life heralds the arrival of a fearless new voice in the literary firmament.