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A carregar... Slow Motion: A Memoir of a Life Rescued by Tragedy (edição 2010)por Dani Shapiro
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. In her early twenties, author Dani Shapiro got romantically involved with a wealthy, narcissistic, married lawyer. She dropped out of Sarah Lawrence to be at his beck and call, and she enjoyed the luxurious gifts he bestowed upon her. To deaden her yeshiva-trained conscience, she drank and abused substances. All this went on with no end in sight until her parents were in an automobile accident. This abrupt tragedy forced her to reconsider her relationships and way of life. Slow Motion is a little slow moving, as Shapiro recounts endless alcohol-soaked evenings and strained family relationships. She does come across as a bit of a spoiled brat. Still, this is a vivid story of one woman’s downward spiral and her hard-won redemption. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
From one of the most gifted writers of her generation comes the harrowing and exquisitely written true story of how a family tragedy saved her life. Dani Shapiro was a young girl from a deeply religious home who became the girlfriend of a famous and flamboyant married attorney--her best friend's stepfather. The moment Lenny Klein entered her life, everything changed: she dropped out of college, began to drink heavily, and became estranged from her family and friends. But then the phone call came. There had been an accident on a snowy road near her family's home in New Jersey, and both her parents lay hospitalized in critical condition. This haunting memoir traces her journey back into the world she had left behind. At a time when she was barely able to take care of herself, she was faced with the terrifying task of taking care of two people who needed her desperately. Dani Shapiro charts a riveting emotional course as she retraces her isolated, overprotected Orthodox Jewish childhood in an anti-Semitic suburb, and draws the connections between that childhood and her inevitable rebellion and self-destructiveness. She tells of a life nearly ruined by the gift of beauty, and then saved by the worst thing imaginable. This is a beautiful and unforgettable memoir of a life utterly transformed by tragedy. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Dani is in her early 20's. She had dropped out of college after a couple of years, ostensibly to pursue an acting/modeling career, but she also became the kept mistress of a much older fabulously wealthy married man, who also happened to be the stepfather of one of her best college friends. There is much cocaine and drinking involved in her life, meals at expensive restaurants (with purging afterwards), travel around the world, jewelry, furs etc. You get the picture--a charmed life indeed.
As the memoir opens, Dani is at a health and beauty spa on the West Coast when she receives a phone call notifying her that her parents have been in a serious car accident and may not survive. She must return to New Jersey at once. As she heads home, and in the days afterwards, she begins to rethink the course her life is taking. "I want to start my life over again, but I don't know how."
The book does a good job of portraying a life gone off the tracks, a self-destructive life, and what it took to turn that life around. Again, although this sort of thing is not my usual fare, it was a decent read.
3 stars ( )