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- From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower comes an intimate memoir of one man's coming-of-age, and a universal story of the American experience of two crucial decades.
- About the Author: LAWRENCE WRIGHT is a staff writer for The New Yorker, a playwright, and a screenwriter.
- 336 Pages
- Biography + Autobiography, Personal Memoirs
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower comes an intimate memoir of one man's coming-of-age, and a universal story of the American experience of two crucial decades. - "A wonderfully readable, thoroughly absorbing memoir of a twenty-five-year span of wrenching change." --The Philadelphia InquirerWe first meet Larry Wright in 1960. He is thirteen and moving with his family to Dallas, the essential city of the New World just beginning to rise across the southern rim of the United States. As we follow him through the next two decades--the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, the devastating assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr., the sexual revolution, the crisis of Watergate, and the emergence of Ronald Reagan--we relive the pivotal and shocking events of those crowded years. Lawrence Wright has written the autobiography of a generation, giving back to us with stunning force the feelings of those turbulent times when the euphoria of Kennedy's America would come to its shocking end.
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"An extraordinary book.... This is history without detachment, a memoir made universal. To read it is to relive the times." --Kansas City Star "Wright remembers in a smoothly articulate style that takes us back into history in near novelistic fashion." --Chicago Sun-Times "A wonderfully readable, thoroughly absorbing memoir of a twenty-five-year span of wrenching change." --The Philadelphia Inquirer
"Beautifully traces a young man's personal reckoning through the years of chaos in his homeland. In the New World succeeds because of its subtle interchange between memory and fact." --The Boston Globe
About the Author
LAWRENCE WRIGHT is a staff writer for The New Yorker, a playwright, and a screenwriter. He is the best-selling author of the novel, The End of October, and ten books of nonfiction, including Going Clear, God Save Texas, and The Looming Tower, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. He and his wife are longtime residents of Austin, Texas.Dimensions (Overall): 8.25 Inches (H) x 5.31 Inches (W) x .72 Inches (D)
Weight: .55 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 336
Genre: Biography + Autobiography
Sub-Genre: Personal Memoirs
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: Paperback
Author: Lawrence Wright
Language: English
Street Date: February 12, 2013
TCIN: 94451204
UPC: 9780345802958
Item Number (DPCI): 247-13-5780
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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