Manhattan Memoir Paperback by Mary Cantwell

Product Details

• Publisher: Penguin Books (2000-05-01)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 448 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780140291902
• Item Weight: 413.91 grams
• Dimensions: 21.39 x 14.1 x 3.07 cm

The New York Times said that Mary Cantwell, in telling the story of her life, "Makes you discover yourself." Now, gathered in a single volume, are her three beautifully etched, unflinchingly honest memoirs. Cantwell's first book, American Girl, evoked the delights of her youth in a small New England town; her second, Manhattan, When I Was Young, told of her blossoming career in New York, her marriage and her children, and that marriage's decline. Speaking with Strangers finds Cantwell alone, a single mother struggling in the big city, bereft of her husband but bolstered by friends, thriving in her career yet personally troubled. With a sensibility as distinct as the city she calls home, Cantwell's autobiographical trilogy brilliantly captures her struggle to forge a life with one foot in her past and the other, warily, in her present.

About the Author

Mary Cantwell is a former magazine editor and longtime member of the New York Times Editorial Board. She lives in New York City.