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Half a Life
Half a Life
Author: Jill Ciment
Unflinchingly honest, moving, and funny, Half a Life shows how a girl without means or promise and with only a loving mother, chutzpah, a bit of fraud, and a lot of luck turned into somebody. In 1964 the Ciment family left middle-class Montreal for the fringe desert communities of Los Angeles, where their always unstable father lost the l...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780385488914
ISBN-10: 0385488912
Publication Date: 8/18/1997
Pages: 224
Rating:
  • Currently 2.8/5 Stars.
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2.8 stars, based on 2 ratings
Publisher: Anchor
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 1
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This is a well written memoir about a teenager's highly dysfunctional relationship with her very strange father. It follows her life growing up in the Valley in the late 60's early 70's, her first job as a semi-forger and a teenage sojourn to NYC, which is nothing less than disastrous. I think most girls that have had a difficult relationship with a parent can relate to her writing. Her story is at times funny, sad and believably unreal.


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