Telling

Description

Combining the insight of Anna Quindlen and the comic storytelling of Garrison Keillor with her own singularly outrageous humor, Marion Winik has captivated thousands of listeners on NPR's All Things Considered. Now, in Telling, she takes us on a journey both personal and universal, a tour of the minefield of chance and circumstance that make up a life. 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 TellingFrom the Trade Paperback edition.

First Sentence

Last summer I snapped the tip off my friend Anita's new ninety-dollar chef's knife by using it to try to pry open a tin of Japanese horseradish.

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Other Editions

• Telling: confessions, concessions, and other flashes of lightVillard Books1994-01-01
• TellingPaperbackVintage1995-03-14
• TellingAudio CassetteRandom House Audio1994-03-08
• TellingHardcoverRandom House Value Publishing1995-12-13
• TellingHardcoverRandom House Value Publishing1997-08-19
• TellingeBookKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group2010-01-01