One Grand Sweet Song

A Memoir in Essays

Joan Rudel (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

216 Seiten

2025
She Writes Press (Verlag)
978-1-64742-811-2 (ISBN)

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The essays of One Grand Sweet Song begin in Joan Rudel's childhood - a world in which her parents' dedication to each other and their careers often leaves her with less-than-consistent guidance and mothering, and to care for her two younger siblings often more times than is safe. The opera house where her father, baton in hand, inspires orchestra and singers to tell magical stories, is the one place where lonely young Joan feels safe. When the curtain rises, she is grateful for the dramatic company that shelters her with tragic tales she comes to regard as her private story time. There is strange comfort in the operas, as her life outside the theater is infused with music and more than a little drama and danger. An unbalanced relationship with her mother fuels her determination to cross-stitch the generations of her own family, literally and figuratively, with consistent love and support. Learning from all she witnesses on the stage, at home, and from a bevy of colorful members of an extended family, Joan is confident that she will be a mother quite unlike her own. In these witty and poignant essays spanning a lifetime, Rudel embraces with humor and optimism the richness of her childhood and of her seventy-five years.

Joan Rudel is a retired tenured professor who has written and published many peer-reviewed articles in her field of Curriculum and Motivation. She also completed and assembled Assessment of Developmental Learning Disorders (Basic Books, 1988), a book her mother, Dr. Rita G. Rudel, began months before her death. Many of her poems and essays have been published in literary journals, including South Carolina Review, The MacGuffin, Calyx, The Texas Review, and North Dakota Quarterly. Joan lives with her husband in New York City.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	5.3.2025
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-64742-811-4 / 1647428114
ISBN-13	978-1-64742-811-2 / 9781647428112
Zustand	Neuware