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My Father, Dancing

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ISBN-10: 0156013967

ISBN-13: 9780156013963

Edition: 2000

Authors: Bliss Broyard

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Bliss Broyard's fathers are charismatic, seductive, brilliant men who loom large in the world, and larger at home. Their daughters, hungry for attention and connection, veer wildly between naiveteacute; and cool indifference. In this powerful collection, Broyard's unsentimental prose captures the passages of daughters as they grow into young women: their struggles with identity, desire, and familial roles. From the early lessons girls absorb through their fathers-their first audience-to the equivocal attachments of marriage to the emotions of love and mourning, the characters in My Father, Dancing chronicle the never-ending dance between fathers and their daughters, and the many awakenings…    
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Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 10/5/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Bliss Broyard is the author of My Father, Dancing (1999), a New York Times notable book of the year, and One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life -- A Story of Race & Family Secrets (2007). Her work has been anthologized in Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize Anthology and The Art of the Essay, and she is a frequent contributor to Elle Magazine and The New York Times Book Review. Broyard lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and daughter.

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