OL1810289W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 77.50 Pages 122 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1101126523 Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 22:34:46 Bookplateleaf 0008 Boxid IA158801 Boxid_2 CH108801 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York, NY Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition 1. This entry was posted in Lesbrary Reviews and tagged danika, Dorothy Allison, lesbian, lesbian author, memoirs, nonfiction, own voices, ownvoices by Danika Ellis. Unsurprisingly, it’s not a totally chipper book, but it’s honest and very well done.ĭorothy Allison is clearly a master, and I can’t wait to read some of her other books. She weaves all of the different themes together extremely well. Dorothy Allison, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure. Allison isn’t ambiguous about being a lesbian, but it never seems to be a big issue for her. Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand. It’s partly about family, especially the women in her family, and how life wore them and her down. Two or Three Things is partly about growing up poor in the rural South.
In fact, I probably will gather up a bunch of quotes and post them on tumblr at some point. I found myself wanting to quote almost every variation on “two or three things I know for sure”. There are two themes that crop up over and over again throughout Two or Three Things: Allison as story-teller and the phrase “two or three things I know for sure”. In fact, I enjoyed it so much and finished it so quickly that I ended up re-reading it shortly after. It is a very quick read: less than 100 pages.
Two or Three Things is a memoir of Dorothy Allison’s, and it even has real photographs of her and her family interspersed throughout. I haven’t read that one yet, but I’ve been wanting to for a long time, so when Two or Three Things I Know for Sure was one of the few books left unpacked, I thought I’d give it a try.
If you’re a lesbian book fan, and I’d be pretty surprised if you’re reading this and aren’t, you’ve probably heard of Dorothy Allison’s lesbian classic Bastard Out of Carolina. Buy Two Or Three Things I Know For Sure Dorothy Allison online today Hardbound Preloved, very good condition Illustrated with photographs from the.
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