Description: Half a Life Paperback by Jill Ciment PRODUCT DESCRIPTION Unflinchingly honest, moving, and funny, Half a Life shows how a girl without means or promise and with only a loving mother, chutzpah, a bit of fraud, and a lot of luck turned into somebody. In 1964 the Ciment family left middle-class Montreal for the fringe desert communities of Los Angeles, where their always unstable father lost the last vestiges of his sanity. Terrified and broke, in a world he could neither understand nor control, he came apart. When the family finally threw him out, he lived for weeks in his car at the foot of their driveway.Ciment turned herself into a girl for whom a father is unnecessary-a tough girl who survived any way she could. She and her brother Jack helped support the family by working for a shady market researcher, quickly learning to supply their own answers to burning questions like, "Did we like Swanson TV dinners? If so, why? On a scale of one to ten, how would we rate the new Talking Barbie? Arrow wax? Dr. Ross's dog food?" She became a gang girl, a professional forger, and a Times Square porn model. Using a friend's SAT score she cheated her way into art school, and seduced and eventually married her art teacher, a married man thirty years her senior.By turns comic, tragic, and heartrending, Half a Life is a bold, unsentimental portrait of the artist as a girl from nowhere, making herself up from scratch, acting up, and finally overcoming the consequences of being the child of a father incapable of love and responsibility. © Copyright . All rights reserved.
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
MPN: 9780385488914
Book Title: Half Alife : a Memoir
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication Year: 1997
Item Height: 0.4 in
Topic: Women Authors, Personal Memoirs, Dysfunctional Families, Customs & Traditions
Genre: Literary Criticism, Family & Relationships, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 8.4 Oz
Item Length: 7.9 in
Author: Jill Ciment
Item Width: 5.3 in
Format: Trade Paperback
