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Homosexuality: The Secret a Child Dare Not Tell

1 review
Mary Ann Cantwell

Rafael Press, 1998

The Sooner Parents Read This Book, the Better
Cantwell related her own experiences as a mother and teacher and shared the results of her informal study of other parents in this book. She employed informal interviews and questionnaires of lesbians, gays, and their parents in order to explore the effects of coming out on family relationships. The inquiry provided a peek into the experiences of boys who realized their same gender attraction at ...

Manhattan Memoir: American Girl; Manhattan, When I Was Young; Speaking with Strangers

6 reviews
Mary Cantwell

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2000

Wonderful prose and a fascinating story
The other reviews told what the book was about. I just wanted to add to their comments by saying that I couldn't put the book down and was sad when it ended. Her words flowed so beautifully.

Manhattan, When I Was Young

8 reviews
Mary Cantwell

Houghton Mifflin, 1995

I hope Cantwell writes another book of this period in NYC
I read this book a few years ago and LOVED it tremendously, declaring it my new favorite book, which is why I owe it a (belated) 5-star ranking. If it had been written in the '50s and early '60s - the time span she covers - it would have enjoyed as much or more success as the "single women in the city" books of the late '90s (Bridget, Girl's Guide, Sex in the City). However, written as a ...

Speaking With Strangers

4 reviews
Mary Cantwell

Amazon Remainders Account, 1999

Everything good that you're read about it is true
Unsentimental, searingly honest, wryly funny, and very, very smart. Memoirists (and would-be memoirists) should study this book. Cantwell writes her life (this is the third volume) with a jaundiced eagle eye. She's been throught a lot of psychic pain, and describes it and much more. The particulars are interesting, the players - family, friends, an ex-husband, lovers - drawn sparely and ...

American Girl: Scenes from a Small-Town Childhood

1 review
Mary Cantwell

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1993

Memory Lane
Thank you Mary Cantwell for the glimpse of my childhood hometown just prior to my arrival (e.g. birth). You confirmed all the stories and rumors...knew all the same names and gossip. I laughed out loud reading about the people I knew... their names the same as my friend's parents. I could feel myself walking the same streets, sitting on the same low walls at Blithewold, taking art classes in the ...