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Are You Happy?

A Childhood Remembered

By: Emily Fox Gordon

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Are You Happy?

A Childhood Remembered

By: Emily Fox Gordon

An elegant dissection of how youthful happiness is lost, by a memoirist of great style and insight. "The happiness of childhood is existential, not psychological," writes Emily Fox Gordon. Gordon's early life was, as she puts it, "a succession of moments of radiant apprehension." In a later age she might have been medicated and counseled and ferried from one appointment to another. But growing up in the college town of Williamstown, Massachusetts, in the fifties, she was free to be alone with her thoughts, to mumble observations and descriptions as she cultivated the writer's lifelong habit of translating experience into words. In the hands of this rigorous thinker, we understand how happiness can be recaptured through telling the story of its loss. As Gordon grew older, she began to be aware of her charming mother's long, slow withdrawal into alcoholic depression. In Are You Happy? Gordon recounts how her childish view the world was lost, and of how that loss ended her childhood. Depicted here is the evolution of a wise child's self-awareness. Moving and perceptive, it is a memoir not to be missed.

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156

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Penguin

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1440629250

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9781440629259

Book of Days

Personal Essays

By: Emily Fox Gordon

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Book of Days

Personal Essays

By: Emily Fox Gordon

Collects the comic personal essays of the author, including pieces on such topics as growing up as a faculty brat on the Williams College campus of the late 1950s, the role of truth in memoir, and her husband's colonoscopy appointment.

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322

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Spiegel & Grau

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0385525893

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9780385525893

Book of Days

Personal Essays

By: Emily Fox Gordon

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Book of Days

Personal Essays

By: Emily Fox Gordon

The sexual politics of a faculty wives dinner. The psychological gamesmanship of an inappropriate therapist. The emotional minefield of an extended family wedding . . . Whatever the subject, Emily Fox Gordon’s disarmingly personal essays are an art form unto themselves—reflecting and revealing, like mirrors in a maze, the seemingly endless ways a woman can lose herself in the modern world. With piercing humor and merciless precision, Gordon zigzags her way through “the unevolved paradise” of academia, with its dying breeds of bohemians, adulterers, and flirts, then stumbles through the perils and pleasures of psychotherapy, hoping to find a narrative for her life. Along the way, she encounters textbook feminists, partying philosophers, perfectionist moms, and an unlikely kinship with Kafka—in a brilliant collection of essays that challenge our sacred institutions, defy our expectations, and define our lives.

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322

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Random House

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0679604014

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9780679604013

It Will Come to Me

By: Emily Fox Gordon

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It Will Come to Me

By: Emily Fox Gordon

Humanities professor Ben, and his wife Ruth, a writer whose early literary success never quite blossomed into a career as a novelist, have settled into a dull routine of pot-luck dinners and endless committee meetings, until a celebrated young memoirist and her husband arrive on campus. A first novel. Reprint.

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290

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Random House

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0385525885

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9780385525886

Are You Happy?

A Childhood Remembered

By: Emily Fox Gordon

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A Childhood Remembered

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Troublemaker

By: Emily Chase

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Troublemaker

By: Emily Chase

When Andy's term paper disappears and Toby is the victim of a cruel letter, the girls of 407 realize that someone is out to get them.

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180

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0590407112

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9780590407113

Mockingbird Years

A Life In And Out Of Therapy

By: Emily Fox Gordon

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Mockingbird Years

A Life In And Out Of Therapy

By: Emily Fox Gordon

During my years as a patient, I felt a guilty and unshakeable conviction that I was completely sane. Of course, my notion that patients were expected to be crazy was a naïve one, but I had swallowed whole the ideology that connects madness to beauty of spirit. In fact, I wasn't interested in being happier, but in growing more poignantly, becomingly, meaningfully unhappy."Here, in her own words, is Emily Fox Gordon, therapy veteran, sometime mental patient, and a prize-winning essayist whose writing Rosellen Brown has praised as "acute and engaging… a combination of wit, rigor and deep feeling." In this astounding memoir, she tells the story of her "therapeutic education," marked by no fewer than five therapists before she turned seventeen. At eighteen, after a half-hearted suicide attempt, Gordon, mired in adolescent angst, began a three-year sojourn at the prestigious Austen Riggs sanitarium. It was at Riggs that Gordon was "rescued" by the maverick psychoanalyst Leslie Farber. Beautifully crafted, and startling in its observations of the therapeutic enterprise, Mockingbird Years is an auspicious debut by a major new talent.

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256

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Basic Books

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0465027288

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9780465027286

Book's by Emily Fox Gordon

Are You Happy?

Are You Happy?

Book of Days

Book of Days

Book of Days

Book of Days

It Will Come to Me

It Will Come to Me

Are You Happy?

Are You Happy?

Troublemaker

Troublemaker

Mockingbird Years

Mockingbird Years

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