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"An American Childhood more than takes the reader's breath away. It consumes you as you consume it, so that, when you have put down this book, you're a different person, one who has virtually experienced another childhood." — Chicago Tribune A book that instantly captured the hearts of readers across the country, An American Childhood is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard's poignant, vivid memoir of growing up in Pittsburgh in the 1950s and 60s. Dedicated to her parents—from whom she learned a love of language and the importance of following your deepest passions—Dillard's brilliant memoir will resonate with anyone who has ever recalled with longing playing baseball on an endless summer afternoon, caring for a pristine rock collection, or knowing in your heart that a book was written just for you.

An American Childhood

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  • Author : Annie Dillard
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Genre : Biography & Autobiography
  • Total Pages : 276 pages
  • ISBN : 006184313X
  • PDF File Size : 22,9 Mb
  • Language : English
  • Rating : 3/5 from 5 reviews

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An American Childhood

An American Childhood
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • File Size : 31,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 13 October 2009
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"An American Childhood more than takes the reader's breath away. It consumes you as you consume it, so that, when you have put down this book, you're a different person,

Huck’s Raft

Huck’s Raft
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • File Size : 28,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 30 April 2006
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Like Huck’s raft, the experience of American childhood has been both adventurous and terrifying. For more than three centuries, adults have agonized over raising children while children have followed

The End of American Childhood

The End of American Childhood
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • File Size : 52,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 07 November 2017
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How American childhood and parenting have changed from the nation's founding to the present The End of American Childhood takes a sweeping look at the history of American childhood and

American Childhood

American Childhood
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • File Size : 21,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 01 October 1995
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In this collection of fourteen essays, Anne Scott MacLeod locates and describes shifts in the American concept of childhood as those changes are suggested in nearly two centuries of children's

Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood

Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • File Size : 24,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 27 April 2021
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For all that is known about the depth and breadth of African American history, we still understand surprisingly little about the lives of African American children, particularly those affected by

Shapers of American Childhood

Shapers of American Childhood
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • File Size : 45,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 24 September 2018
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The experience of growing up in the U.S. is shaped by many forces. Relationships with parents and teachers are deeply personal and definitive. Social and economic contexts are broader

American Child Bride

American Child Bride
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • File Size : 51,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 02 September 2016
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Most in the United States likely associate the concept of the child bride with the mores and practices of the distant past. But Nicholas L. Syrett challenges this assumption in

A Lucky American Childhood

A Lucky American Childhood
  • Publisher : University of Iowa Press
  • File Size : 45,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 01 May 1996
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Born in 1908, Paul Engle grew up the son of a livery stable keeper. As he writes in his dedication to this loving account, "I had a lucky life. Such a

States of Childhood

States of Childhood
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • File Size : 30,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 14 July 2020
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A number of curious communities sprang up across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century: simulated cities, states, and nations in which children played the roles

Childhood in America

Childhood in America
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • File Size : 51,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 19 May 2024
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Anthology of fiction and nonfiction works presenting society's views of children and childrearing practices in the United States from Colonial times to the present.