Acclaimed writer Barbara Holland, whom the Philadelphia Inquirer has called "a national treasure," finally tells her own story with this atmospheric account of a postwar American childhood. When All the World Was Young is Holland's account of growing up in Washington, D.C., during the s and '50s, and is a deliciously subversive, sensitive journey into her past/5(24). Acclaimed writer Barbara Holland, whom the Philadelphia Inquirer has called "a national treasure," finally tells her own story with this atmospheric account of a postwar American childhood. When All the World Was Young is Holland's account of growing up in Washington, D.C., during the s and '50s, and is a deliciously subversive, sensitive journey into her past.4/5(4). Acclaimed writer Barbara Holland, whom the Philadelphia Inquirer has called “a national treasure,” finally tells her own story with this atmospheric account of a postwar American childhood. When All the World Was Young is Holland’s account of growing up in Washington, D.C., during the s and ’50s, and is a deliciously subversive, sensitive journey into her past/5(23).
Holland (One's Company, , etc.) presents a collection of exemplary little essays in praise of a lot of her favorite things. A kind of personal book of virtues, it's one that should, if life is fair, speak to a wide audience. From the first piece, ``Waking Up,'' through ``Lunch'' and ``Spring,'' on to ``Air,'' ``Fire,'' and ``Water,'' past ``Getting Older'' and five dozen others, the. Barbara Holland, a writer whose humorous essays sang the simple pleasures of drinking martinis, cursing and eating fatty foods, and who wrote an evocative best-selling memoir of her childhood and. WHEN ALL THE WORLD WAS YOUNG A Memoir. By Barbara Holland. pp. Bloomsbury. $ "WHAT did I look like at 10?" Barbara Holland wonders in her memoir of growing up in Washington during the.
When All the World Was Young is Holland's memoir of growing up in Washington, D.C. during the s and 50s, and is a deliciously subversive, sensitive journey into her past. Mixing politics with personal meditations on fatherhood, mothers and their duties, and "the long dark night of junior high school," Holland gives readers a unique and sharp-eyed look at history as well as hard-earned insight into her own life. When all the world was young: a memoir by Holland, Barbara. Publication date Topics Holland, Barbara, Holland, Barbara, Authors, American, Journalists Publisher. When All the World Was Young is Holland's memoir of growing up in Washington, D.C. during the s and 50s, and is a deliciously subversive, sensitive journey into her past. Mixing politics with personal meditations on fatherhood, mothers and their duties, and "the long dark night of junior high school," Holland gives readers a unique and.
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