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Chargement... Two or Three Things I Know for Sure (1995)par Dorothy Allison
   Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  overlycriticalelisa | Jul 11, 2022 |   "Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is what it means to have no loved version of your life but the one you make." "Two or three things I know for sure and one of them is that telling the story all the way through is an act of love." (  ) overlycriticalelisa | Feb 17, 2017 |  ) AntT | Jan 24, 2015 | ) AntT | Jan 24, 2015 | Musing on the fate and demands upon the girls and women in her family: "Beauty is a hard thing. Beauty is a mean story. Beauty is slender girls who die young, fine-featured delicate creatures about whom men write poems. Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time. And I loved her for that." And "The women I loved most in the world horrified me. I did not want to grow up to be them. I made myself proud of their pride, their determination, their stubbornness, but every night I prayed a man's prayer: Lord, save me from them. Do not let me become them." And later, exploring the impact of the childhood rape and her efforts to transcend what this necessarily taught her about herself, her determination to define her own place in the world: "Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I would rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me." At moments poetic, certainly not linear, this memoir also lets the reader into deep sibling rivalries and adoration. Beautiful. (  )2  EBT1002 | Jan 24, 2014 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Autrice de Peau, recueil d'essais devenu culte. Dorothy Allison a grandi dans le sud des Etats-Unis, dans un contexte de misère sociale et de violences familiales et sexuelles. Dans Deux ou trois choses dont je suis sûre, elle raconte les femmes de sa famille - mère, soeurs, cousines, filles et tantes -, rendant hommage à leur force, leur humour, leur beauté et surtout leur détermination obstinée face au quotidien qui les accable. Illustré de photographies de sa collection personnelle, ce livre montre à quel point les petites histoires d'une génération peuvent acquérir le statut de légende pour tes générations suivantes. Un ouvrage où la vision singulière de Dorothy Allison s'exprime avec beaucoup d'humour et d'émotion. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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5 stars.
from 2017:
wow. so i don't like everything dorothy allison has ever done, but when i do like it, holy fuck i love it. this is beautiful and raw and real and honest and tearing and still beautiful. it's an incredible statement and i cried and soared all the way through it.
"Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is what it means to have no loved version of your life but the one you make."
"Two or three things I know for sure and one of them is that telling the story all the way through is an act of love." (5 stars) (