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The chronology of water: a memoir
| Title | The chronology of water: a memoir |
| Names | Yuknavitch, Lidia. |
| Cain, Chelsea. Writer of introduction |
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| Book Number | DBC19284 |
| Title Status | Active |
| Medium | Digital Books |
| Download Link | Downloadable talking book. |
| Annotation | This is not your mother's memoir. In The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch, a lifelong swimmer and Olympic hopeful, escapes her raging father and alcoholic and suicidal mother when she accepts a swimming scholarship which drug and alcohol addiction eventually cause her to lose. What follows is promiscuous sex with both men and women, some of them famous, and some of it S&M, as Lidia discovers the power of her sexuality to help her forget her pain. The forgetting doesn't last, though, and it is her hard-earned career as a writer and teacher, and the love of her husband and son, that ultimately create the life she needs to survive. Adult. Unrated. |
| General Notes | Available from BARD courtesy of the Washington Talking Book and Braille Library. |
| Local Notes | "This is not your mother's memoir. In The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch expertly moves the reader through issues of gender, sexuality, violence, and the family from the point of view of a lifelong swimmer turned artist. In writing that explores the nature of memoir itself, her story traces the effect of extreme grief on a young woman's developing sexuality that some define as untraditional because of her attraction to both men and women. Her emergence as a writer evolves at the same time and takes the narrator on a journey of addiction, self-destruction, and ultimately survival that finally comes in the shape of love and motherhood." -- Worldcat. |
| Narrator | Novak, Diane. |
| Length | 8 hours, 55 minutes |
| Local Subject | Biography - BI |
| Memoirs and autobiography - BI7 | |
| Northwest biography - NW9 | |
| Northwest author - NW7 | |
| Northwest nonfiction - NW2 | |
| Sports and recreation - SP | |
| Family - SO7 | |
| Produced at WTBBL - PAW | |
| Nonfiction - NF | |
| Adult book - AD | |
| LC Subject | Women authors, American - 21st century - Biography |
| Swimmers - United States - Biography |
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| Authors, American - 21st century - Biography |
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| Autobiographies |
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| Nonfiction |
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| Audience Notes | A NLS/BPH |
| Call Number | 813.54 B AFI |
| Language | English |
| Contents | Holding breath -- Under blue -- The wet -- Resuscitations -- The other side of drowning. |
| Released | 2010 |
| Publication Info | Seattle : Hawthorne Books 2010 |
| Original Publication | Recorded from: Portland, OR : Hawthorne Books, [2010] 9780979018831 0979018838 |
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