Telling

by Winik, Marion

• ISBN13: 9780679428596
• ISBN10: 0679428593
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-02-01
• Publisher: Villard Books

Summary

Combining the insight of Anna Quindlen and the comic storytelling of Garrison Keillor with her own singularly outrageous humor, Marion Winik has captivated thousands of listeners on NPR's All Things Considered. Now, in Telling, she takes us on a journey both personal and universal, a tour of the minefield of chance and circumstance that make up a life. Along the way, she offers razor-sharp takes on everything from adolescence in suburban New Jersey ("Yes, I wanted to be a wild teenage rebel, but I wanted to do it with my parents' blessing") to hellish houseguests and bad-news boyfriends; from the joys of breastfeeding in public to the sometimes-salvation of motherhood. Candid, passionate, and breathtakingly funny, Marion Winik maintains an unshaken belief that following one's heart is more important than following the rules -- and a conviction that the secrets we try to hide often contain the deepest truths. "A born iconoclast, an aspiring artiste, a feminist vegetarian prodigal daughter, from early youth I considered myself destined to lead a startling life far outside the bounds of convention. I would be famous, dangerous, brilliant and relentlessly cool: a sort of cross between Emma Goldman, Jack Kerouac, and Georgia O'Keeffe.... So where did this station wagon come from?" -- from Telling From the Trade Paperback edition.

Table of Contents

Telling	p. 3
This Is Not My Beautiful House	p. 12
For Mr. Turtle, and Others	p. 22
Sixteen Pictures of My Father	p. 26
Women Who Love Men Who Don't Pay Their Parking Tickets	p. 33
How Do I Look?	p. 39
Suburban Teens on Acid, 1972-1975	p. 53
The Madonna About Town	p. 59
Where Mommies Come From	p. 64
Secrets of the Natives	p. 75
Going Out to Breakfast, and Other Grounds for Divorce	p. 78
What Are Friends For?	p. 85
Houseguest Heaven and Hell	p. 90
A Very Good Friday Indeed	p. 97
Work: The Early Years	p. 102
Meditations on a Stolen Purse	p. 109
The Landlady	p. 113
Taking Hayes to Mexico	p. 122
Off the Road, and On	p. 133
Domestic Arrangements	p. 139
Some of My Best Friends	p. 150
Visiting Steven	p. 157
The Out-of-Towners	p. 165
A Night in New Orleans	p. 174
My Secret Crush	p. 181
Thirty-five	p. 184
Things Don't Just Disappear	p. 190
My Sibilant Darling	p. 198
Do the Night Thing	p. 209
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