Le regine di Freeville
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9788879729536 (8879729535)
Publish date: 2011
Publisher: Corbaccio
Pages no: 191
Edition language: Italian
Category:
Non Fiction,
Humor,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
Essays,
Book Club,
Family,
Biography Memoir,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit
Comments: When a friend at the Chicago Tribune told Amy Dickinson that the paper was going to launch a new advice column after the death of Ann Landers, and invited her to audition for the job, she was unsure of her qualifications for telling people how to solve their problems. However, when she tho...
I received this book as an Advanced Reader copy and enjoyed it a lot more than I expected to. I don't usually like memoirs, but I found the book very funny and hard to put down. Amy Dickinson was left by her husband when her daughter was very young while they were living in London. She moved back to...
I read the author's column everyday (she took over for Ann Landers) and I thought she was a lot younger and very put together person, so I was surprised by this memoir that tells me she is my age and has a failed relationship. I really enjoyed this one.
This was a good story about an extended family of strong women. Amy Dickinson was left by her husband early in their marriage. Alone with a young baby she had to rearrange her life. She left their home in London and returned to her childhood home in Freeville, NY. She surrounded herself with her fam...
Amy Dickinson comes from a long line of strong women. They had to be. The men in the family seldom stayed around. When Dickinson's husband left her, she and her daughter moved back to Freeville and let the women there help heal the hurts. Dickinson (who became the "replacement" for Ann Landers) te...
16 years ago
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