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The Mother is a novel by Pearl S. Buck, first published in New York by the John Day Company in 1934. It follows the life of peasant woman in rural China before the 1911 Revolution , as she struggles to raise her children and cope with poverty, famine, and social oppression.
The book follows Nadia, a young woman who left her Southern California hometown years ago after the suicide of her mother and is called back to attend to a family emergency. The Mothers , released on October 11, 2016 by Riverhead Books , received critical acclaim and was a New York Times bestseller.
I'm Glad My Mom Died is a 2022 memoir by American writer, director and former actress Jennette McCurdy based on her one-woman show of the same name. The book is about her career as a child actress and her difficult relationship with her abusive mother who died in 2013.
Mother (Russian: Мать, romanized: Mat') is a novel written by Maxim Gorky in 1906 about revolutionary factory workers. It was first published, in English, in Appleton's Magazine in 1906, [ 1 ] then in Russian in 1907.
[3] Laura Miller's review for The Guardian called the book profound, but stated that the book's heavy focus on psychoanalysis weighs it down. [4] The book won the 2013 Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Non-Fiction, and was a finalist for the 2013 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir or Biography and the 2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for ...
In the play, Brecht utilizes narrative, irony, the juxtaposition of self-proclaimed "truths" to reveal their flaws, the concretizing of complex ideas into dramatic events, an understanding and simple presentation of human behaviour, and a comedic optimism that things can be changed and that reason and common sense will overcome fear and superstition.
“Assata: An Autobiography” [3] begins with forewords by political activist, philosopher, and author Angela Davis and lawyer, teacher, and author Lennox Hinds. Davis and Hinds were both participating in a benefit at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey at the time Assata Shakur, also known as JoAnne Chesimard, was awaiting trial for murder in the 1970s.
Despite controversy surrounding Agassi's admission to using methamphetamine in 1997, [5] [6] the book reached No. 1 on the New York Times Best Seller list [7] and was met with critical acclaim, [8] [9] [10] with New York Times writer Sam Tanenhaus claiming that Open "is not just a first-rate sports memoir but a genuine bildungsroman, darkly funny yet also anguished and soulful".