The Rules Do Not Apply : A Memoir/

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Label

The Rules Do Not Apply : A Memoir/

Title remainder

A Memoir/

Statement of responsibility

Levy, Ariel

Creator

• Levy, Ariel

Contributor

• cloudLibrary

Author

• Levy, Ariel

Subject

• Electronic books
• Lesbians -- United States -- Biography
• Levy, Ariel -- Marriage
• Life change events -- United States
• Miscarriage -- United States
• PSYCHOLOGY & PSYCHIATRY
• SOCIAL SCIENCE
• Sex role -- United States
• Women journalists -- United States -- Biography
• Young women -- United States -- Biography
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Genre

• Electronic books
• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

-- "I wanted what we all want: everything. We want a mate who feels like family and a lover who is exotic, surprising. We want to be youthful adventurers and middle-aged mothers. We want intimacy and autonomy, safety and stimulation, reassurance and novelty, coziness and thrills. But we can?t have it all." In this profound and beautiful memoir, Levy chronicles the adventure and heartbreak of being "a woman who is free to do whatever she chooses." Her own story of resilience becomes an unforgettable portrait of the shifting forces in our culture, of what has changed?and of what is eternal. -- ?David Sedaris "Ariel Levy is a writer of uncompromising honesty, remarkable clarity, and surprising humor gathered from the wreckage of tragedy. Her account of life doing its darnedest to topple her, and her refusal to be knocked down, will leave you shaken and inspired. I am the better for having read this book." -- ?Amy Bloom "It?s become a truism that feminists are living out our mothers? unlived lives. But Ariel Levy seems to be living out the unlived lives of an entire generation of women, simultaneously. Free to do whatever she chooses, she chooses everything. While reinventing work, marriage, family, pregnancy, sex, and divorce for herself from the ground up, Levy experiences devastating loss. And she recounts it all here with searing intimacy and an unsentimental yet openhearted rigor." -- The Rules Do Not Apply?Ren? Steinke

Cataloging source

B@L

Dewey number

305.30973

Index

no index present

LC call number

CT275.L3777

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries