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Amy Krouse Rosenthal
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Agent:
Simon Trewin
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Amy Krouse Rosenthal is an author of adult and children’s books. She is the host of the radio show Writers’ Block Party on WBEZ Chicago Public Radio. Her essays and articles have appeared in The New York Times, Hallmark Magazine, Parenting, O: The Oprah Magazine, and McSweeney's. She lives with her family in Chicago. |
Amy's official website can be found at http://www.encyclopediaofanordinarylife.com/
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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AN ORDINARY LIFE |
ATLANTIC (1 Mar 08) |
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This work presents Schott's miscellany for the human condition. It offers a unique view of life at the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries - a memoir in the form of an encyclopaedia. A beautiful, poignant and humorous memoir from a startlingly talented young writer, "Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life" recalls the writing of Dave Eggers at its best. Packaged with stunning artwork by Jeffrey Middleton, it is both a gorgeous piece of 21st century art and a scintillating work of literary brilliance. A unique, one-of-a-kind book that breaks all conventions in its creation of a singular voice, "Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life" is the work of a 21st century 'everyperson' - memorable precisely for her studied acceptance of the normality of her life and the sweeping beauty she finds in every corner. Rosenthal's great accomplishment is the narrative thread that develops across the alphabetical landscape the book presents, so that the reader gets a full and rich sense of one woman's life - ordinary, perhaps, but extraordinary in that her observations are so uncannily universal. |
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ISBN: 1 84354 683 3 |
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