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The Secret of M. Dulong
Colette Inez
其他書名
A Memoir
出版Univ of Wisconsin Press, 2005
主題Biography & Autobiography / GeneralBiography & Autobiography / Literary FiguresFamily & Relationships / Adoption & FosteringLiterary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / American / GeneralLiterary Criticism / PoetrySocial Science / Women's StudiesTravel / Essays & Travelogues
ISBN02992142069780299214203
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=qR1Nv-tOjJ0C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋A search for roots and identity has rarely been captured with such irony, unusual insight, and surprising humor as in this memoir of heartbreak and hope. Today a distinguished American poet, Colette Inez first came to the United States when she was eight years old, as an apparent Belgian orphan escorted by two complete strangers. Growing up in post-World War II America, a stranger to her own past, she survived a harrowing adolescence and an increasingly menacing, abusive adoptive family by learning to define her single solace: a developing passion for literature. Facing possible deportation in the 1950s, Inez set out to prove her claim to U.S. citizenship. The result, as she recounts in this eloquent, wrenching memoir, would span two continents, a trail of discovery, and a buried secret: one that ultimately allowed Inez to reconcile her past and present and finally come of age as an artist.