Certain Loneliness : A Memoir, Paperback by Lambert, Sandra Gail, Like New Us...

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Genre: Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography, Psychology Publication Year: 2018 Item Length: 8.5 in Item Height: 0.6 in Format: Trade Paperback Topic: Women Authors, People with Disabilities, Personal Memoirs, American / General, Literary, Emotions, Lgbt height: 0.6 in Language: English Author: Sandra Gail Lambert Number of Pages: 210 Pages Book Title: Certain Loneliness : a Memoir Publisher: University of Nebraska Press Item Weight: 9.2 Oz Item Width: 5.4 in Book Series: American Lives Ser. width: 5.4 in ISBN: 9781496207197

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Certain Loneliness : A Memoir, Paperback by Lambert, Sandra Gail, Like New Us.... Certain Loneliness : A Memoir, Paperback by Lambert, Sandra Gail, ISBN 149620719X, ISBN-13 9781496207197, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US After contracting polio as a child, Sandra Gail Lambert progressed from braces and crutches to a manual wheelchair to a power wheelchair—but loneliness has remained a constant, from the wild claustrophobia of a child in body casts to just yesterday, trapped at home, gasping from pain. A Certain Loneliness is a meditative and engaging memoir-in-essays that explores the intersection of disability, queerness, and female desire with frankness and humor. Lambert presents the adventures of flourishing within a world of uncertain tomorrows: kayaking alone through swamps with alligators; negotiating planes, trains, and ski lifts; scoring free drugs from dangerous men; getting trapped in a too-deep snow drift without crutches. A Certain Loneliness is literature of the body, palpable and present, in which Lambert’s lifelong struggle with isolation and independence—complete with tiresome frustrations, slapstick moments, and grand triumphs—are wound up in the long history of humanity’s relationship to the natural world.