Manhattan Memoir: American Girl/Manhattan, When I Was Young/Speaking with Strangers
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Book Overview
The New York Times said that Mary Cantwell, in telling the story of her life, "Makes you discover yourself." Now, gathered in a single volume, are her three beautifully etched, unflinchingly honest memoirs. Cantwell's first book, American Girl, evoked the delights of her youth in a small New England town; her second, Manhattan, When I Was Young, told of her blossoming career in New York, her marriage and her children, and that marriage's decline. Speaking with Strangers finds Cantwell alone, a single mother struggling in the big city, bereft of her husband but bolstered by friends, thriving in her career yet personally troubled. With a sensibility as distinct as the city she calls home, Cantwell's autobiographical trilogy brilliantly captures her struggle to forge a life with one foot in her past and the other, warily, in her present.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0140291903
ISBN13:9780140291902
Release Date:May 2000
Publisher:Penguin Books
Length:448 Pages
Weight:0.97 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 5.5" x 8.2"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
Customer Reviews
4 ratings
Exellent memoir, New York City a main character too
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
It's a memoir about Cantwell being in her 20's and 30's in NYCity -- time period is 1950's and '60's. Very good. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Her writing is really good.
A Classic Memoir
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
Mary Cantwell's Manhattan Memoir is three books in one but you will never tell the difference. The stories flow together as Cantwell's memoir's cover her life. Cantwell takes you through a stroll in Manhattan. The good times, the struggles. The best memoir I have read. This is that book you will tell all of your friends about. Cantwell is a fantastic story teller.
Wonderful prose and a fascinating story
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
The other reviews told what the book was about. I just wanted to add to their comments by saying that I couldn't put the book down and was sad when it ended. Her words flowed so beautifully.
A delightful walk through time
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
The late Mary Cantwell charmingly recounts, in this 3 books in one volume paperback, her years growing up in a small New England seaport town and her youthful foray into the 'glamourous' magazine world of New York City in the 'fities. Sane, sensible and warm nostalgia--without being saccharine. Beautifully written. A must for the literate and for New York lovers-- especially those who remember the days!
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