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100 1 $aSee, Carolyn.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81039797
245 10 $aDreaming :$bhard luck and good times in America /$cCarolyn See.
260 $aNew York :$bRandom House,$c[1995], ©1995.
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520 $aIn this bittersweet and beautifully written memoir Carolyn See embarks on nothing less than a reevaluation of the American Dream. "This is a history," she writes, "of how drugs and drink have worked in our family for the last fifty - actually it turned out to be closer to a hundred - years. In varying degrees, it's history seen through a purple haze. It's full of secrets and chaos and distortions, and secretly remembered joys. I'm beginning to think it may be the unwritten history of America.".
520 8 $aAlthough it features a clan in which dysfunction was something of a family tradition, Dreaming is no "victim's story" or temperance tract. With a wry humor and not a trace of self-pity, See writes of fights and breakups and hard times, but also of celebration and optimism in the face of adversity. The story of See's own family speaks for the countless people who reached for the shining American vision, found it eluded their grasp, and then tried to make what they had glitter as best they could.
520 8 $aDreaming is about yearning, imagining, and reinventing oneself, about rolling with the punches and continuing on. In this fiercely funny and deeply empathetic book, See shows us that the wild life, for better and worse, has made us what we are.
600 10 $aSee, Carolyn$xFamily.
650 0 $aWomen novelists, American$y20th century$xFamily relationships.
650 0 $aSubstance abuse$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010113419
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