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This title in other formats:Lifesaving: A Memoirby Judith Barrington
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:In 1963, the author's parents drowned when the cruise ship Lakonia caught fire and sank north of the Canary Isles. Barrington was nineteen. Lifesaving is a lyrical rendering of an event that foreshadowed the accident, the years of holding grief at bay — much of them in Franco's Spain, and her eventual passage through mourning. Lifesaving is also a coming-of-age story in its illumination of the special ways that teenagers deal with loss. The story is told with gentle humor and consummate skill. Review:"An honest woman, Judith Barrington told us how to write a memoir, and now
she shows us: the orphaning events of childhood can become generous muse."
-- Kim Stafford Review:"Lifesaving reminds us that memoir is an art form, and can equal the novel
in shapeliness, intensity, and fascination. Barrington's easygoing
narrative and the good humor of the tone-often disarmingly funny-conceal a
dark, driving undercurrent of pain. The complex levels of imagery build to
a resolution as hard-won as it is inevitable. It's not easy to be honest
about one's youth, about the lies one's lived, about death, about sex, but
that's what this story is about, and it's told with a beautiful honesty. I
think a great many people will find it speaks to them about the hard places
and the hard choices, while they love it for its sunlit picture of a woman
young, wild, and wildly alive." — Ursula K. Le Guin Review:"Throughout her writing is superb; she evokes smalltown Spain under Franco
in lush detail with solid philosophical insight into the tragedy that
changed her life. Among the growing number of memoirs, this is a gem."
-Publishers Weekly (starred review) Synopsis:In 1963, the author's parents drowned when the cruise ship Lakonia caught fire and sank north of the Canary Isles. Barrington was nineteen. Lifesaving is a lyrical rendering of an event that foreshadowed the accident, the years of holding grief at bay — much of them in Franco's Spain, and her eventual passage through mourning. Lifesaving is also a coming-of-age story in its illumination of the special ways that teenagers deal with loss. The story is told with gentle humor and consummate skill. About the AuthorJudith Barrington is known widely as the author of the bestselling Writing
the Memoir: From Truth to Art published in January 1997. The process of
writing Lifesaving is described in Writing the Memoir, generating
considerable interest in it. She is the author of two volumes of poetry,
Trying to Be an Honest Woman (1985) and History and Geography (1989). Her work has been included in numerous anthologies including The Stories That Shape Us: Twenty Women Write About the West, A Formal Feeling Comes, From
Here We Speak: An Anthology of Oregon Poetry, Hers 3, Lesbian Travels,
Uncommon Waters, Love Shook My Senses, and Season of Dead Water. Barrington's work has been published in many literary journals including Americas Review, Kenyon Review, ZYZZYVA, Poetry London, 13th Moon, Ploughshares, The GSU Review, and The Chattahoochee Review. Sections from Lifesaving were published in The American Voice, The Sonora Review (annual Creative Nonfiction Award), Left Bank, The Women's Review of Books, and in the anthologies: The House on Via Gombito and an Inn Near Kyoto. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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