Telling

Confessions, Concessions, and Other Flashes of Light

Marion Winik

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Vintage Books
14 March 1995

Biography: general

Combining the insight of Anna Quindlen and the comic storytelling of Garrison Keillor with her own singularly outrageous humor, a commentator on NPR's All Things Considered takes us on a tour of the minefield of chance and circumstance that make up a life.

""Winik's voice is so true and clear and compassionate, we're happy to listen to any story she wants to tell.""-Los Angeles Times Book Review

Along the way, she offers razor-sharp takes on everything from adolescence in suburban New Jersey (""Yes, I wanted to be a wild teenage rebel, but I wanted to do it with my parents' blessing"") to hellish houseguests and bad-news boyfriends; from the joys of breastfeeding in public to the sometimes-salvation of motherhood.

Candid, passionate, and breathtakingly funny, Marion Winik maintains an unshaken belief that following one's heart is more important than following the rules-and a conviction that the secrets we try to hide often contain the deepest truths.

""A born iconoclast, an aspiring artiste, a feminist vegetarian prodigal daughter, from early youth I considered myself destined to lead a startling life far outside the bounds of convention. I would be famous, dangerous, brilliant and relentlessly cool- a sort of cross between Emma Goldman, Jack Kerouac, and Georgia O'Keeffe.... So where did this station wagon come from?"" -from Telling

By: Marion Winik
Imprint: Vintage Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 266g
ISBN: 9780679755227
ISBN 10: 0679755225
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 14 March 1995
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

MARION WINIK's personal essays are heard regularly on National Public Radio's All Thing Considered and appear in periodicals ranging from Parenting to Playgirl to The Utne Reader. She lives in Austin, Texas, with her two sons.

Reviews for Telling: Confessions, Concessions, and Other Flashes of Light

Winik's voice is so true and clear and compassionate, we're happy to listen to any story she wants to tell. - Los Angeles Times Book Review Winik has an unpredictable, humorous, erratically spinning life and a straightforward, wry way of serving it up... Beneath every essay there is wit, humor and hope. - Houston Chronicle