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An American Childhood
Title: An American Childhood
Category: Literature / Novels
Details: Words: 396 | Pages: 1.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
An American Childhood
An American Childhood
Based on Peter S. Hawkins' Review
An American Childhood, by Annie Dillard, is a happy memoir of
Annie's own life, a child of a well-to-do Pittsburgh family.
Dillard remembers much of her childhood and doesn't hesitate to tell us
a bit of it. Author Flannery O'Conner once said, "any novelist who
could survive her childhood had enough to write about for a lifetime."
This was most certainly the case for Dillard.
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…showed last 75 words of 396 total…to her feelings and frustrations, and like Holden Caulfield
in Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, Annie Dillard lets the reader
know how she feels about everything and everyone, no matter how that
may be.
An American Childhood is a great book that is guaranteed to
entertain even the pickiest of readers. It is amazing how
through her writing and her own memories, Annie Dillard can bring back
so many childhood memories of our own.
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