Sandra Gail Lambert

Certain Loneliness (eBook, ePUB)

A Memoir

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

After contracting polio as a child, Sandra Gail Lambert progressed from braces and crutches to a manual wheelchair to a power wheelchair-but loneliness has remained a constant, from the wild claustrophobia of a child in body casts to just yesterday, trapped at home, gasping from pain. A Certain Loneliness is a meditative and engaging memoir-in-essays that explores the intersection of disability, queerness, and female desire with frankness and humor. Lambert presents the adventures of flourishing within a world of uncertain tomorrows: kayaking alone through swamps with alligators; negotiating planes, trains, and ski lifts; scoring free drugs from dangerous men; getting trapped in a too-deep snow drift without crutches. A Certain Loneliness is literature of the body, palpable and present, in which Lambert's lifelong struggle with isolation and independence-complete with tiresome frustrations, slapstick moments, and grand triumphs-are wound up in the long history of humanity's relationship to the natural world. Purchase the audio edition.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496208620
• Artikelnr.: 54029610

Autorenporträt

Sandra Gail Lambert is a writer of both fiction and memoir. She is the author of The River’s Memory. She was awarded an NEA fellowship based on an excerpt from A Certain Loneliness.          

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
1. Solace: Three of the Places
2. The Laundromat
3. Figuring It Out
4. Well-Nourished White Child
5. Atlanta—1968
6. Sex Objects
7. Complex Math
8. Atlanta—1984
9. Becoming Lazy
10. Rolling in the Mud
11. Open-Water Swimmers
12. Pass the Hemlock
13. Poster Children
14. The Art of Budgeting
15. Mosquitoes
16. Negotiating a Life
17. Dehiscence
18. May or May Not
19. Atlanta—2007
20. The Last Period
21. Immoderation and Excess
22. Looking for the V
23. Yielding
24. I Am Here, in This Morning Light
25. Pride Goeth
26. Horror in the Okefenokee
27. I’m Fine, Thank You
28. The Blind Girl and the Cripple Get on a Plane
29. The Swimmer
Source Acknowledgments