Rebellion, 1967 (ePub)
A Memoir
(Sprache: Englisch)
Janet Duffy, a spunky, seventeen-year-old Irish girl, is eager to start
collegebut instability between her alcoholic father and self-absorbed
mother jeopardize her dream, so she sets up her own apartment with her
younger sister in Jamaica,...
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Janet Duffy, a spunky, seventeen-year-old Irish girl, is eager to start
collegebut instability between her alcoholic father and self-absorbed
mother jeopardize her dream, so she sets up her own apartment with her
younger sister in Jamaica, Queens, and treks to City College in
Manhattan, New York. The routine is deadening, but she finds purpose in
the black community, working for a mural painter and volunteering for a
civil rights activist.
After turning eighteen, Janet marches with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and falls for a young black saxophone player, Carmen. Her father, a policeman, explodes over their relationship, so Janet rebelsruns away with the jazz musician, and then winds up in the East Village in the Summer of Love. In the ensuing months she deals with heartbreak, sexual harassment, poverty, and dangerbut eventually, she asks for the help she needs in order to pick up the pieces of her life and return to her dream.
After turning eighteen, Janet marches with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and falls for a young black saxophone player, Carmen. Her father, a policeman, explodes over their relationship, so Janet rebelsruns away with the jazz musician, and then winds up in the East Village in the Summer of Love. In the ensuing months she deals with heartbreak, sexual harassment, poverty, and dangerbut eventually, she asks for the help she needs in order to pick up the pieces of her life and return to her dream.
Autoren-Porträt von Janet Luongo
Janet Luongo writes stories, creates art, and gives speeches and workshops. Raised Unitarian Universalist in New York City, she holds an MSEd from Queens College at CUNY and taught art from kindergarten to college. While teaching at the International School of Geneva over several years, she exhibited paintings in Geneva and Paris. In Connecticut, she taught communication at Sacred Heart University. As an art education curator in Bridgeport museums, her innovative programs garnered grants, awards and media attention for connecting urban and suburban children and developing leadership in underserved teens. Her book, 365 Daily Affirmation for Creativity, with a foreword by Jack Canfield and published in five countries, led to presentations in the US and as far as Xian, China. To make diverse feminist artists visible, she founded a non-profit, which mounted forty exhibits. She coproduced the movie Women Make Art, which was screened at the UNIFEM film festival. Currently, photography is her art. She resides with her husband, Jim, in Norwalk, Connecticut, and they enjoy hiking with their son and family in Colorado.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Janet Luongo
- 2021, Englisch
- Verlag: She Writes Press
- ISBN-10: 1647421055
- ISBN-13: 9781647421052
- Erscheinungsdatum: 27.07.2021
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