Half a Life: A Memoir

By turns comic, tragic, and heartrending, "Half a Life" is a bold, unsentimental portrait of the artist as a girl from nowhere, making herself up from scratch, acting up, and finally overcoming the consequences of being the child of a father incapable of love and responsibility. "Tender, unsentimental, and filled with moments of contagious joy and heartbreak, her 'half a life' is more than most people experience in a lifetime".--"Publishers Weekly".

Author: Jill Ciment
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 08/18/1997
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.18w x 0.56d
ISBN13: 9780385488914
ISBN10: 0385488912
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Biography & Autobiography | Memoirs

About the Author
Jill Ciment is the author of Small Claims and The Law of Falling Bodies, which The New York Times called "a radiant first novel...keenly observed and beautifully written." She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Foundation for the Arts. She teaches creative writing at Columbia University and Rutgers University and lives in New York City.