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21%OFFJenni Calder - Not Nebuchadnezzar - 9781842820605 - V9781842820605
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Not Nebuchadnezzar

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Description for Not Nebuchadnezzar Paperback. Jenni Calder was born Jennifer Rachel Daiches to a Scottish-born mother and English-born Jewish father in Chicago, one of America's great melting-pot cities. Not Nebuchadnezzar traces her journey from then to now. Through this book, Calder discovers that her true sense of identity can only develop from finding out who she is not. Num Pages: 211 pages. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 282.

"I'm not Nebuchadnezzar, and I'm not MacBeth." So who am I? Chicago, Nairobi, Jerusalem, Cambridge, Edinburgh: the geography of Jenni Calder's life is as diverse as the ethnic, intellectual and emotional components.

Jenni Calder has spent a lifetime in search of her identity, first as a daughter and sister, then as a writer, wife and mother. Not Nebuchadnezzar is a biography of sorts, a chronicle of the consuming search for that elusive concept known as 'identity'.

Highly respected biographer of Robert Louis Stevenson, poet and historian, Calder has chosen an intriguingly elliptical, thematic approach to writing her own vividly presented life story. ... Read more

Jenni Calder was born Jennifer Rachel Daiches to a Scottish-born mother and English-born Jewish father in Chicago, one of America's great melting-pot cities. Not Nebuchadnezzar traces her journey from then to now. Through this book, Calder discovers that her true sense of identity can only develop from finding out who she is not. Here she balances her multiple identities to throw kaleidoscopic prisms from a single source - herself.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Luath Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
211
Condition
New
Number of Pages
211
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781842820605
SKU
V9781842820605
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-13

About Jenni Calder
Jenni Calder was born in the United States but moved to Scotland in 1971. She currently lives in South Queensferry, and formerly worked for the Natiknal Museum of Scotland. She has written and lectured widely on Scottish, English and American literary and historical subjects, and writes fiction and poetry under the name Jenni Daiches. She has two daughters, a son ... Read more

Reviews for Not Nebuchadnezzar
...a touching and highly resonant account of what it means to have several identities... This is an intelligent, personal, yet universal tale. - THE SCOTTISH STANDARD, 20 April 2005 ...explores aspects of her life in a series of lucid, thoughtful essays which examine the concept of identity. - FEATURE in The Scotsman, 16 April 2005 ... Read more

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