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Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites
Paperback
Culinary BiographiesBiographies GeneralFood Writing
ISBN13: 9780307951106
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: May 6 2014
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
A delectable memoir about the transformative power of food, Blue Plate Special is a deeply personal narrative in which food becomes the vehicle for exploring a life. Here, novelist Kate Christensen tells her own story, from her unorthodox childhood in 1960s Berkeley as the daughter of a legal activist who ruled the house with his fists to her extraordinary success as a PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author. Hungry not just for food, but for love and a sense of belonging, Christensen writes honestly about her struggle to find the contentment she has always yearned for. A beautifully written account of a knockabout life, full of sorrows, pleasures--and, of course, food--Blue Plate Special is a delicious reading experience.
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