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Author : Ryan Van Meter
Release : 2011
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 946/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis If You Knew Then what I Know Now by : Ryan Van Meter
Download or read book If You Knew Then what I Know Now written by Ryan Van Meter. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coming-of-age is complicated by coming-out in personal essays leavened with humor, generosity, and all the awkward indignities of growing up.
Author : Ryan Van Meter
Release : 2011-04-05
Genre : Literary Collections
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 405/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis If You Knew Then What I Know Now by : Ryan Van Meter
Download or read book If You Knew Then What I Know Now written by Ryan Van Meter. This book was released on 2011-04-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author explores his path from closeted child to out-and-proud adult in this deeply personal collection of fourteen linked essays. “[A] moving debut. . . . Thanks to Van Meter’s honesty, essays on his own childhood, identity, and love have a profoundly universal appeal.” —Publishers Weekly The middle American coming-of-age has found new life in Ryan Van Meter’s coming-out, made as strange as it is familiar by acknowledging the role played by gender and sexuality. In fourteen linked essays, If You Knew Then What I Know Now reinvents the memoir with all-encompassing empathy—for bully and bullied alike. This deft collection maps the unremarkable yet savage landscapes of childhood with compassion and precision, allowing awkwardness its own beauty. This is essay as an argument for the intimate—not the sensational—and an embrace of all the skinned knees in our stumble toward adulthood. “As Van Meter drifts elliptically between his childhood as a closeted young boy and his life now as an openly gay man, he draws the reader inexorably to this book, and its compelling weight.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer “To read a book this observant, this fiercely honest, and this effortlessly beautiful is to feel the very pulse of contemporary American essays.” —John D’Agata, author of The Lifespan of a Fact “These essays are insistently honest, darkened by melancholy and yearning, yet polished by prose so lithe, so elegant that Van Meter’s human presence brightens every line.” —Lia Purpura, author of It Shouldn’t Have Been Beautiful
Author : Richard Edler
Release : 1997
Genre : Chief executive officers
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis If I Knew Then What I Know Now by : Richard Edler
Download or read book If I Knew Then What I Know Now written by Richard Edler. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No matter what your current achievements or future aspirations, the advice in this book can save you years of hard learning"--Back cover
Author : Jo Renfro
Release : 2019-09
Genre :
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 114/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis If We Knew Then What We Know Now... We Wouldn't Be Us by : Jo Renfro
Download or read book If We Knew Then What We Know Now... We Wouldn't Be Us written by Jo Renfro. This book was released on 2019-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wonderfully whimsical book is a celebration of all the phases and stages it took to get you to who you are today... a bold, confident, incredible woman who is not afraid to stand up, speak out, and rock the boat.
Author : Jann Arden
Release : 2022-03-15
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 993/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis If I Knew Then by : Jann Arden
Download or read book If I Knew Then written by Jann Arden. This book was released on 2022-03-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER Jann Arden—bestselling author, recording artist and late-blooming TV star—is back with this funny, heartfelt and fierce memoir on becoming a woman of a certain age. The power, gravity and freedom she's found at fifty-seven are superpowers she believes all of us can unleash. Digging deep into her strengths, her failures and her losses, Jann Arden brings us an inspiring account of how she has surprised herself, in her fifties, by at last becoming completely her own person. Like many women, it took Jann a long time to realize that trying to be pleasing and likeable and beautiful in the eyes of others was a loser's game. Letting it rip, and damning the consequences, is not only liberating, it's a hell of a lot of fun: "Being the age I am—that so many women are—is just the best time of my life." Jann weaves her own story together with tales of her mother, grandmother, and great grandmother, and the father she came close to hating, to show her younger self—and all of us—that fear and avoidance is no way to live. "What I'm thinking about now aren't all the ways I can try to hang on to my youth or all the seconds ticking by in some kind of morbid countdown to death," she writes, "but rather how I keep becoming someone I always hoped I could be. If I'm lucky one day a very old face will look back at me from the mirror, a face I once shied away from. I will love that old woman ferociously, because she has finally figured out how to live a life of purpose—not in spite of but because of all her mistakes and failures."
