Ebook {Epub PDF} Two or Three Things I Know for Sure by Dorothy Allison

 · Two or Three Things I Know for Sure is a small book, smaller than 5” x 8” and less than one hundred pages in the hardback. At the back of the book there is an Author’s Note. Two or Three Things I Know for Sure was written for performance in the months following the completion of my novel, Bastard Out of Carolina. First performed in August at The Lab in San Francisco, the piece has /5(K). Illustrated with photographs from the author’s personal collection, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure tells the story of the Gibson women — sisters, cousins, daughters, and aunts — and the men who loved them, often abused them, and, nonetheless, shared their destinies. With luminous clarity, Allison explores how desire surprises and what power feels like to a young girl as she confronts www.doorway.ru: 11 rows · Bastard Out of Carolina, nominated for the National Book Award for fiction, introduced /5().

"Bastard Out of Carolina, nominated for the National Book Award for fiction, introduced Dorothy Allison as one of the most passionate and gifted writers of her generation. Now, in Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, she takes a probing look at her family's history to give us a lyrical, complex memoir that explores how the gossip of one generation can become legends for the next. "Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand." ― Dorothy Allison, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure. For those of you who have read Dorothy Allison's amazing, moving novel BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA, this book is the bridge between the fiction of that work and the reality of Dorothy's life -- and even without BASTARD as a reference, this is an immensely powerful www.doorway.ru OR THREE THINGS I KNOW FOR SURE was originally intended as a one-woman stage presentation -- I can only imagine, after reading.

Dorothy Allison’s autobiographical narrative Two or Three Things I Know for Sure examines how a lower-class upbringing has affected the identities of the women in her family. Beauty, inadvertently, becomes one of the most valued things among her family members, a perceived lack of which shapes Allison as a person. Two or Three Things I Know for Sure is a novel written by Dorothy Allison and published in Allison has written other books, including the novel Bastard Out of Carolina, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. Dorothy Allison's Aunt Dot said she only new two or three things for sure and added, "Of.