This Is Not the Ivy League: A Memoir
In passages reminiscent of Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women, we see a smart girl who, to realize her potential, must bring her own volition ruthlessly to bear. When, after marrying at age eighteen, she becomes pregnant within the year, her mother-in-law is triumphant: "I guess this i...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Great plains quarterly 2012, Vol.32 (3), p.223-224 |
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| Format: | Review |
| Sprache: | eng |
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| Zusammenfassung: | In passages reminiscent of Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women, we see a smart girl who, to realize her potential, must bring her own volition ruthlessly to bear. When, after marrying at age eighteen, she becomes pregnant within the year, her mother-in-law is triumphant: "I guess this is finally the end of college for you!" Instead, Blew continues putting her education first, even causing her husband to follow her when she enrolls in a PhD program at the University of Missouri. |
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| ISSN: | 0275-7664 2333-5092 |