Everything / nothing / someone : a memoir
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Macedon Public Library - Adult Biography
BIO CARRIERE
1 available
BIO CARRIERE
1 available
Palmyra Community Library - Adult Biography
92 CARRIERE
1 available
92 CARRIERE
1 available
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Macedon Public Library - Adult Biography | BIO CARRIERE | Available |
Palmyra Community Library - Adult Biography | 92 CARRIERE | Available |
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Book
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276 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Alice Carrière tells the story of her unconventional upbringing in Greenwich Village as the daughter of a remote mother, the renowned artist Jennifer Bartlett, and a charismatic father, European actor Mathieu Carrière. From an early age, Alice is forced to navigate her mother's recovered memories of ritualized sexual abuse, which she turns into art, and her father's confusing attentions. Her days are a mixture of privilege, neglect, loneliness, and danger-a child living in an adult's world, with little-to-no enforcement of boundaries or supervision. When she enters adolescence, Alice begins to lose her grasp on herself, as a dissociative disorder erases her identity and overzealous doctors medicate her further away from herself. She inhabits various roles: as a patient in expensive psychiatric hospitals, a denizen of the downtown New York music scene, the ingenue in destructive encounters with older men-ricocheting from experience to experience until a medication-induced psychosis brings these personas crashing down. Eventually, she finds purpose in caring for her mother as she descends into dementia, in a love affair with a recovering addict who steadies her, in confronting her father whose words and actions splintered her, and in finding her voice as a writer. With gallows humor and brutal honesty, Everything/Nothing/Someone explores what it means for our body and mind to belong to us wholly, irrevocably, and on our own terms. In pulsing, energetic prose that is both precise and probing, Alice manages to untangle the stories told to her by her parents, the American psychiatric complex, and her own broken mind to craft a unique and mesmerizing narrative of emergence and, finally, cure.
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Carrière, A. (2023). Everything / nothing / someone: a memoir . Spiegel and Grau.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Carrière, Alice. 2023. Everything / Nothing / Someone: A Memoir. Spiegel and Grau.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Carrière, Alice. Everything / Nothing / Someone: A Memoir Spiegel and Grau, 2023.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Carrière, Alice. Everything / Nothing / Someone: A Memoir Spiegel and Grau, 2023.
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