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- catalog abstract "Half a Life is a luminously written memoir that will stand beside such autobiographical classics as This Boy's Life, Stop Time, and The Liars' Club. A scrupulously honest and hauntingly sad look at what it's like to be poor and fatherless in America, it 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 herself into somebody. Half a Life begins with the Ciments' immigration from Montreal's. Middle-class Jewish suburbs to the fringe desert communities of Los Angeles, a landscape and culture so alien that their father loses the last vestiges of his sanity. Terrified and broke, he brutalizes his wife and children. When the family finally throws him out, he lives for weeks in his car at the foot of their driveway. Ms. Ciment turns herself into a girl for whom a father is unnecessary - a tough girl who will survive any way she can. She becomes a gang girl, a. Professional forger, a crooked pollster, and a porno model. By age eighteen, she seduces and marries a man thirty years her senior - to whom she is still married. 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 out, and finally overcoming the consequences of being the child of a father incapable of love and responsibility.".
- catalog contributor b9497863.
- catalog coverage "California Social life and customs.".
- catalog coverage "Los Angeles (Calif.) Social life and customs.".
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "Half a Life is a luminously written memoir that will stand beside such autobiographical classics as This Boy's Life, Stop Time, and The Liars' Club. A scrupulously honest and hauntingly sad look at what it's like to be poor and fatherless in America, it 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 herself into somebody. Half a Life begins with the Ciments' immigration from Montreal's.".
- catalog description "Middle-class Jewish suburbs to the fringe desert communities of Los Angeles, a landscape and culture so alien that their father loses the last vestiges of his sanity. Terrified and broke, he brutalizes his wife and children. When the family finally throws him out, he lives for weeks in his car at the foot of their driveway. Ms. Ciment turns herself into a girl for whom a father is unnecessary - a tough girl who will survive any way she can. She becomes a gang girl, a.".
- catalog description "Professional forger, a crooked pollster, and a porno model. By age eighteen, she seduces and marries a man thirty years her senior - to whom she is still married. 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 out, and finally overcoming the consequences of being the child of a father incapable of love and responsibility.".
- catalog extent "210 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Half a life.".
- catalog identifier "0517701715".
- catalog isFormatOf "Half a life.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Crown,".
- catalog relation "Half a life.".
- catalog spatial "California Los Angeles".
- catalog spatial "California Los Angeles.".
- catalog spatial "California Social life and customs.".
- catalog spatial "Los Angeles (Calif.) Social life and customs.".
- catalog subject "813/.54 B 20".
- catalog subject "Authors, American 20th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "Children of the mentally ill California Los Angeles Biography.".
- catalog subject "Ciment, Jill Childhood and youth.".
- catalog subject "Families California Los Angeles.".
- catalog subject "Fathers and daughters California Los Angeles Biography.".
- catalog subject "PR9199.3.C499 Z465 1996".
- catalog subject "Women authors, Canadian 20th century Biography.".
- catalog title "Half a life / by Jill Ciment.".
- catalog type "text".