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The Secret of M. Dulong: A Memoir (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography)
Colette Inez
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Hardcover. In post-WWII America, stranger to her own past, Colette Inez survives a harrowing adolescence and a menacing, abusive adoptive family by defining her solace in a passion for literature. This memoir, spans two continents, a trail of discovery, and a buried secret that allowed her to reconcile her past, present and finally come of age as an artist. Series: Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography. Num Pages: 240 pages, 14 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGLA; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 531.
A search for roots and identity has rarely been captured with such irony, unusual insight, and surprising humor as in this memoir of heartbreak and hope. Today a distinguished American poet, Colette Inez first came to the United States when she was eight years old, as an apparent Belgian orphan escorted by two complete strangers. Growing up in post-World War II America, a stranger to her own past, she survived a harrowing adolescence and an increasingly menacing, abusive adoptive family by learning to define her single solace: a developing passion for literature. Facing possible deportation in the 1950s, Inez set ... Read more
A search for roots and identity has rarely been captured with such irony, unusual insight, and surprising humor as in this memoir of heartbreak and hope. Today a distinguished American poet, Colette Inez first came to the United States when she was eight years old, as an apparent Belgian orphan escorted by two complete strangers. Growing up in post-World War II America, a stranger to her own past, she survived a harrowing adolescence and an increasingly menacing, abusive adoptive family by learning to define her single solace: a developing passion for literature. Facing possible deportation in the 1950s, Inez set ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
Series
Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299214203
SKU
V9780299214203
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About Colette Inez
Colette Inez is associate professor in the writing program at Columbia University. Her nine books of poetry include The Woman Who Loved Worms, Alive and Taking Names, Clemency, and Spinoza Doesn't Come Here Anymore. Inez is the recipient of numerous awards and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations and twice from the National Endowment for the Arts. ... Read more
Reviews for The Secret of M. Dulong: A Memoir (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography)
Colette Inez becomes the detective who must be shrewd and even deceptive to gain the truth about her origins. To say that her childhood was Dickensian almost seems an understatement, but she tells her story without self-pity, as if in writing it she can stand above or beyond her former self. A remarkable story of survival and discovery. - James ... Read more