Learning to Fly: A Writer's Memoir
Two years before her death in 2005, Mary Lee Settle sat down "to trace the way that led me into the writer I have been for fifty years." The result is this memoir, which picks up her life story where Addie (1998) left it, with a girl turning twenty, head over heels in love with the language of Shakespeare and determined to be an actress. That summer of 1938 her mother sends Mary Lee off to a theater apprenticeship, inadvertently setting her on a road...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0393057321
ISBN13:9780393057324
Release Date:August 2007
Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company
Length:240 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.2" x 8.3"
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Wonderful Cultural History
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 14 years ago
Filled with humor and grace, a wonderfully written memoir that is both cultural history and enlightening to personal present day struggles.
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