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Not Nebuchadnezzar (Paperback, New)
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Not Nebuchadnezzar (Paperback, New)
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Loot Price R250
Discovery Miles 2 500
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"I'm not Nebuchadnezzar, and I'm not MacBeth." So who am I?
Chicago, Nairobi, Jerusalem, Cambridge, Edinburgh: the geography of
Jenni Calder's life is as diverse as the ethnic, intellectual and
emotional components. Jenni Calder has spent a lifetime in search
of her identity, first as a daughter and sister, then as a writer,
wife and mother. Not Nebuchadnezzar is a biography of sorts, a
chronicle of the consuming search for that elusive concept known as
'identity'. Highly respected biographer of Robert Louis Stevenson,
poet and historian, Calder has chosen an intriguingly elliptical,
thematic approach to writing her own vividly presented life story.
Keenly observed cameos of people and places abound but although
this moving book is infused with a sense of mischief and fun, at
heart it is a wise contemplation of life. Jenni Calder's retrospect
describes a life well-lived, full of event and achievement, love
and loss, aspiration and frustration. If you know who you are not,
do you then know who you are? Jenni Calder was born Jennifer Rachel
Daiches to a Scottish-born mother and English-born Jewish father in
Chicago, one of America's great melting-pot cities. Not
Nebuchadnezzar traces her journey from then to now. Through this
book, Calder discovers that her true sense of identity can only
develop from finding out who she is not. Here she balances her
multiple identities to throw kaleidoscopic prisms from a single
source - herself.
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