
- 240 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Virginia's Apple is a collection of fourteen literary memoirs that explore pivotal episodes across poet and writer Judith Barrington's life. Artfully crafted, each one stands alone yet they are linkedācharacters reappear and, taken together, they create a larger narrative.
The content is wide-ranging: the early days of the Second Wave of feminismāthe exhilaration, the wildness, the love affairs, the surprises, and the self-invention, as well as the confusion and conflicts of those heady times; navigating a sometimes precarious existence as an out lesbian long before it was commonplace; leaving England and becoming an American citizen; finding a life partner; and growing old with an inherited disability. The author's friendship with the distinguished poet Adrienne Rich is the subject of one story. In another, there's an appearance by the notorious murderer, Lord Lucan, whose wife was a chance acquaintance.
These stories are laced with humor and joy, while pulsing below the surface is the slow unfolding of delayed grief over her parents' drowning when she was nineteen, revealing how such a loss can shape a life.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- The Walk Home
- The Condolence Dog
- Nicolette
- Three Arum Lilies
- Imagine
- Veronica, Lois, and Me
- Elgin Avenue
- Westering
- Beds
- Wild Patience
- Virginiaās Apple
- Poetry and Prejudice
- Allegiances
- What the Living Do
- Acknowledgments
- Credits
- About the Author