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An edition of True north: a memoir (1994)

True north

a memoir

1st ed.
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With all the openness to life, all the largeness of spirit, that made her girlhood memoir, The Road from Coorain, an acclaimed - and beloved - bestseller, Jill Ker Conway continues her story.

She was twenty-five when we left her, driven by a hunger to know and to understand, boarding a plane that would carry her far from her Australian homeland. As True North begins she lands, appropriately enough, in a hurricane, in New York.

And is soon at Harvard, a graduate student in history experiencing both exhilaration and culture shock; discovering among friends of many backgrounds an easier sociability than she has ever known; delighting in classes that seem charged with energy, and in the perception that ideas were being taken seriously - yet still feeling like an extraterrestrial on the American planet.

We see her joining with five other women to form a household that becomes an "almost magical," hilarious, and harmonious community - the community that functions as her family when she meets the Harvard professor and housemaster who will become her husband, John Conway, himself a historian, Canadian born and bred, decorated for heroism in World War II - the complex man whose mind and spirit complement her own.

We see them marrying and learning to live together - during a year at Oxford, in Rome, and as they settle into the new world of Canadian university life - happy with each other, while coping, not always well, with her classically obsessive thesis writing, her as-yet-unresolved conflict with her mother, his periodic bouts of depression, and her realization that even though John's integrity, courage, and devotion to humanistic learning have become the compass point - the true north - by which she steers, there will be times when she has to navigate alone.

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Alfred A. Knopf
Language
English
Pages
250

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True north: a memoir
1996, Isis, Bolinda Press, Beeler Large Print
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True north: a memoir
1994, A.A. Knopf Canada
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True north: a memoir
1994, Alfred A. Knopf
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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
305.4/0994/092, B
Library of Congress
LD7152.7.C66 C66 1994

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 250 p. ;
Number of pages
250

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1433501M
Internet Archive
truenorthmemoir00conw
ISBN 10
0679420991
LCCN
93045302
OCLC/WorldCat
29470359
Library Thing
117542
Goodreads
1667407

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