Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, steeped in the hard-won wisdom of experience, expresses the strength of her unique vision with beauty and eloquence. With luminous clarity, Allison explores how desire surprises and what power feels like to a young girl as she confronts abuse.Īs always, Dorothy Allison is provocative, confrontational, and brutally honest. Illustrated with photographs from the author's personal collection, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure tells the story of the Gibson women - sisters, cousins, daughters, and aunts - and the men who loved them, often abused them, and, nonetheless, shared their destinies. Now, in Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, she takes a probing look at her family's history to give us a lyrical, complex memoir that explores how the gossip of one generation can become legends for the next. A coming-of-age story that examines feminism and lesbian identity in the context of the patriarchal norms of the South, the book uses both narrative and photographs to tell the stories of the women in. Urn:oclc:708291664 Republisher_date 20120221005354 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120220032918 Scanner Out of Carolina, nominated for the 1992 National Book Award for fiction, introduced Dorothy Allison as one of the most passionate and gifted writers of her generation. Two or Three Things I Know for Sure is a 1995 memoir by American author and activist Dorothy Allison, a native of Greenville, South Carolina. Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.

OL1810289W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 70.49 Pages 118 Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1101126523 Urn:lcp:twoorthreethings00alli:epub:8d82945b-2635-4850-9cb5-d6a97911eb20 Extramarc NYU Bobcat Foldoutcount 0 Identifier twoorthreethings00alli Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t5fb64h3r Isbn 9780452273405Ġ452273404 Lccn 95017752 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL13594924M Openlibrary_edition This book title, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, ISBN: 9780452273405, by Dorothy Allison, published by Penguin Publishing Group (August 1, 1996) is. 'Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is what it means to have no loved version of your life but the one you make.' 'Two or three things I know for sure and one of them is that telling the story all the way through is an act of love. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:14:01 Boxid IA170601 Boxid_2 CH110701 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary External-identifier Two or Three Things I Know for Sure Paperback Augby Dorothy Allison (Author) 281 ratings Kindle 11.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 23.00 62 Used from 1.35 9 New from 17.99 17 Collectible from 5.06 Paperback 16.00 86 Used from 1.18 11 New from 9.05 Audio CD 9.71 9 New from 9.

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