Roberta Israeloff
Auteur de Kindling the Flame: Reflections on Ritual, Faith, and Family
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Roberta Israeloff is a former contributing editor to "Parents". (Bowker Author Biography)
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Editor's Choice II: Fiction, Poetry & Art from the U.S. Small Press, 1978-1983 (Contemporary Anthology Series) (1987) — Contributeur — 6 exemplaires
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- Œuvres
- 6
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- 1
- Membres
- 82
- Popularité
- #220,761
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 13
But it was her descriptions of the basement rec-room necking parties that got to me the most. She always was the un-paired girl, wishing someone would dance with her. Yearning vaguely for a necking partner, but not quite able to imagine liking it. Guess what? Guys think about stuff like that too, but they're ways of expressing it are a lot cruder. Which is why, at thirteen, Israeloff was so confused and put off by the small cruelties and crudeness of the boys in her crowd.
Israeloff's portrait of the tracking system of junior high in early sixties Long Island is detailed and fascinating. But her diary entries from that year - her eighth grade in a new school after moving from Queens to the suburbs - are at the heart of the narrative. Her commentary on these diary entries, looking back thirty years later, told me a lot about the misery of being a girl. I already knew plenty about the misery of being a pimply thirteen year-old boy, but now I feel like I understand how it was for the girls. Roberta Israeloff is a very good writer, good enough that I felt for her thirteen year-old self. I'm sure plenty of women would enjoy this book and relate to it, but I would not hesitate to recommend it to men. I wish I'd had it to read twenty-some years ago, when my own daughter was thirteen, and going through her own teenage hell. But maybe better late than never. Thanks, Roberta, for telling your story - and for the commentary from the vantage point of decades later. This is a book that should be on the recommended reading list for Women's Studies.… (plus d'informations)