MARC Record from marc_columbia

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100 1 $aMaran, Meredith.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92032304
245 10 $aWhat it's like to live now /$cMeredith Maran.
260 $aNew York :$bBantam,$c1995.
300 $a338 pages ;$c24 cm
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520 $aLike the heart-to-heart conversations you share with your funniest, most honest, most unshockable woman friend, What It's Like to Live Now reveals the intimate details of a singular life as it is lived by a member of a singular generation.
520 8 $aIn 1968 Meredith Maran was expelled from the elite Bronx High School of Science for leading protests against the Vietnam War. She was an active member of the generation that pledged to change the world, end injustice, and stay young forever. Today (despite all expectations to the contrary) she is forty-three, with an ex-husband, a lover, two teenage sons, and a mortgage on her dream house at the edge of the Oakland ghetto.
520 8 $aOne thing hasn't changed: Meredith is still asking big questions. How do you justify your decision to stay in the inner city when your son wants to carry a knife to junior high to protect himself? How do you create a happy healthy family when nothing in your childhood taught you how - and your new life partner is a woman? How do you keep your heart open when breast cancer and AIDS are attacking your closest friends?
520 8 $aAnd how do you stay true to your hopes for a better world when there's a living to be made and a homeless man at the front gate? Happily, Meredith Maran navigates these dilemmas without ever losing her subversive sense of humor. Whether she is challenging the nutritionally correct with her death-by-chocolate birthday cake or agonizing over what kind of nightgown to pack for her first weekend with a woman lover, her eye for life's contradictions is hilariously accurate.
520 8 $aWhat Its Like to Live Now is a poignant exploration of the gap between the dreams of the sixties and the realities of the nineties - and a reminder that even as youthful idealism goes gray at the temples, life can be lived with love, commitment, and integrity. Reflected in the mirror Meredith Maran holds up to her choices and experiences, you are certain to catch a glimpse of your own.
600 10 $aMaran, Meredith.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92032304
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852 00 $bbar,stor$hHQ75.4.M327$iA3 1995