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LEADER: 02942cam a2200325 i 4500
001 2013044917
003 DLC
005 20150614125244.0
008 140129s2014 cau 000 eaeng
010 $a 2013044917
020 $a9781619025394 9paperback)
020 $a9781619023000 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda
042 $apcc
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aPN2287.L425$bA3 2014
082 00 $a791.4302/8092$aB$223
084 $aBIO026000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aLenney, Dinah,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe object parade :$bessays /$cDinah Lenney.
264 1 $aBerkeley :$bCounterpoint,$c[2014]
300 $axiv, 200 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"This new collection of interconnected essays marches to a provocative premise: what if one way to understand your life was to examine the objects within it? Which objects would you choose? What memories do they hold? And lined up in a row, what stories do they have to tell? In recalling her experience, Dinah's essays each begin with one thing - real or imaginary, lost or found, rare or ordinary, animal, vegetable, mineral, edible. Each object comes with a memory or a story, and so sparks an opportunity for rue or reflection or confession or revelation, having to do with her coming of age as a daughter, mother, actor, and writer: the piano that holds secrets to family history and inheritance; the gifted watches that tell so much more than time; the little black dress that carries all of youth's love and longing; the purple scarf that stands in for her journey from New York to Los Angeles, across stage and screen, to pursue her acting dream. Read together or apart, the essays project the bountiful mosaic of life and love, of moving to Los Angeles and raising a family; of coming to terms with place, relationship, failures, and success; of dealing with up-ended notions about home and family and career and aging, too. Taken together, they add up to a pastiche of an artful and quirky life, lovingly remembered, compellingly told, wrapped up in the ties that bind the passage of time. "--$cProvided by publisher.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: THE OBJECT PARADE -- Prologue -- I. -- Carpet Bag -- This Old Watch -- Charlie's Piano -- Metronome -- Dinah's Room -- The General's Table -- Spoon -- Mole -- Piano, Too -- Gertude's Scarf -- II. -- Chandelier -- Chicken Stew -- Nests -- Collar -- Charm -- Flight Jacket -- Green Earrings -- Little Black Dress -- Little Black Dress, Two -- Ferris Wheel -- Stick Kite -- III. -- Scoop -- Eggs -- Two Guitars -- Script -- Christmas Tree -- Breakfront -- Spice Chest -- Jeans and Clogs -- Poster -- Letter to Dad -- Instructions, As If -- Epilogue.
600 10 $aLenney, Dinah.
650 0 $aActresses$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.$2bisacsh