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Incognito Street: How Travel Made Me a Writer
Contributor(s): Sjoholm, Barbara (Author)

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 ISBN: 1580051723     ISBN-13: 9781580051729
Publisher: Seal Press (CA)
OUR PRICE: $20.89  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: November 2006
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Annotation: Barbara Sjoholm arrived in London in the winter of 1970 at the age of twenty. Like countless young Americans in that tumultuous time, she wanted to leave a country at war and explore Europe; a small inheritance from her grandmother gave her the opportunity. Over the next three years, she lived in Barcelona, hitchhiked around Spain, and studied at the University of Granada. She managed a sourvenir shop in the Norwegian mountains and worked as a dishwasher on the Norwegian Coastal Steamer. Set on becoming a writer, she read everything from Colette to Dickens to Borges, changing her style and her subject every few weeks, and gradually found her voice.
"Incognito Street" is the story of a young woman's search for artistic, political, and sexual identity while digesting the changing world around her. As she sheds the ghosts of her childhood, we come to know her quiet yet adventurous spirit. In moments that are tender, funny, bewildering, and suspenseful, we see an evocative look at Europe through the blossoming writer's maturing eyes.
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Travel | Essays & Travelogues
- Biography & Autobiography | Adventurers & Explorers
- Travel | Reference - General
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2006012043
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.64" W x 8.16" L (0.96 lbs) 256 pages
Features: Illustrated, Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents
Awards: Lambda Literary Awards, Finalist, Women's Memoir/Biography, 2006
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 09/25/2006 pg. 61
Booklist 11/15/2006 pg. 17
Lambda Book Report 12/01/2007 pg. 12
 
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Barbara Sjoholm arrived in London in the winter of 1970 at the age of twenty. Like countless young Americans in that tumultuous time, she wanted to leave a country at war and explore Europe. Over the next three years, she lived in Barcelona, hitchhiked around Spain, and studied at the University of Granada, finding odd jobs to make ends meet. Set on becoming a writer, she read everything from Colette to Dickens to Borges, changing her style and her subject every few weeks, and gradually found her voice. Incognito Street is the story of a young woman's search for artistic, political, and sexual identity while digesting the changing world around her. As she sheds the ghosts of her childhood, we come to know her quiet yet adventurous spirit. In moments that are tender, funny, bewildering, and suspenseful, we see an evocative look at Europe through the blossoming writer's maturing eyes.
 
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