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Growing Up Fast by Lipper, Joanna
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- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- Yes
- ISBN
- 9780312422226
- Book Title
- Growing Up Fast
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Publisher
- Picador
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.4in
- Features
- Revised
- Genre
- Family & Relationships, Health & Fitness, Business & Economics, Social Science
- Topic
- Sociology / General, Economic Conditions, Pregnancy & Childbirth, Parenting / Single Parent
- Item Width
- 5.7in
- Item Weight
- 21.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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Product Information
InGrowing Up FastJoanna Lipper tells the life stories of Amy, Shayla, Jessica, Colleen, Liz, and Sheri--six teen mothers whom she first met in l999 when they were all enrolled at the Teen Parent Program in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Making a short documentary film was only the beginning of an extraordinary journey that continued for four years as Lipper videotaped and interviewed the girls, their families, and the fathers of their babies. This raw material was the basis forGrowing Up Fast, which in the words of Naomi Wolf, "reads like a nineteenth-century novel about young women burdened by fates they did not choose." Less than a decade older than these teen parents, Joanna Lipper was able to blend into the fabric of their lives. She earned their trust as they shared with her the daily reality of their lives and their experiences growing up in the economically depressed post-industrial landscape of Pittsfield. Often masked by statistics, demonized by the media, and stereotyped by people of all political persuasions, the voices and stories of these teen parents reveal the complex, disturbing, and often painful reality behind a vast array of social issues including welfare reform, low wages, drugs, domestic and dating violence, the prevalence of child abuse, and the role of education. In the tradition ofThe Cornerand Studs Terkel'sWorking, Growing Up Fastis a landmark work of empathy that will speak powerfully to parents, teachers, social workers, policy-makers, doctors, psychologists, policemen, lawyers, and teenagers.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Picador
ISBN-10
0312422229
ISBN-13
9780312422226
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2373304
Product Key Features
Book Title
Growing Up Fast
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Features
Revised
Topic
Sociology / General, Economic Conditions, Pregnancy & Childbirth, Parenting / Single Parent
Publication Year
2003
Genre
Family & Relationships, Health & Fitness, Business & Economics, Social Science
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
1.4in
Item Width
5.7in
Item Weight
21.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hq759.4.L57 2003
Edition Description
Revised Edition
Reviews
"In nearly 400 fast-paced pages of wonderfully evocative prose, much of it in the words of her six subjects, all teen mothers, Lipper has actually conveyed the social and personal history of a growing class of Americans for whom there is little help and less hope. But this class of people has inner lives, and this is what Lipper is so deft at communicating... Lipper has mastered all of the relevant data. She has also mastered the scholarship on teens, on teen families, on children of these families, on the families from which these mothers come... Give this book for Christmas. It will burden the conscience of its readers." - Martin Peretz, The New Republic "Growing Up Fast is a haunting testament to the vast, unfinished business of the abandonment of the working class and the resulting trauma that continues destroying lives. Joanna Lipper takes on the hard task of real listening to the young women who carry on, and she honors their predicament by rigorously setting out the complex context of their lives. This is necessary, enraging work. We're very lucky to have it."Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, author of Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble & Coming of Age in the Bronx "Writing in the tradition of Winesburg, Ohio, Joanna Lipper takes us into Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Growing Up Fast is an astonishing book combining arresting portraits of mothers and fathers who are themselves children with a devastating depiction of a community living on the edge of economic despair." --Carol Gilligan "Joanna Lipper's book works as a literary representation of the film 8 Mile. Like the hit movie, Lipper's investigation of the young white working class in a burnt-out, post-industrial, rust belt city portrays lives of a not-so-quiet desperation." --Nelson George, author of Hip-Hop America, "In nearly 400 fast-paced pages of wonderfully evocative prose, much of it in the words of her six subjects, all teen mothers, Lipper has actually conveyed the social and personal history of a growing class of Americans for whom there is little help and less hope. But this class of people has inner lives, and this is what Lipper is so deft at communicating... Lipper has mastered all of the relevant data. She has also mastered the scholarship on teens, on teen families, on children of these families, on the families from which these mothers come... Give this book for Christmas. It will burden the conscience of its readers." - Martin Peretz, The New Republic " Growing Up Fast is a haunting testament to the vast, unfinished business of the abandonment of the working class and the resulting trauma that continues destroying lives. Joanna Lipper takes on the hard task of real listening to the young women who carry on, and she honors their predicament by rigorously setting out the complex context of their lives. This is necessary, enraging work. We're very lucky to have it."Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, author of Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble & Coming of Age in the Bronx "Writing in the tradition of Winesburg, Ohio, Joanna Lipper takes us into Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Growing Up Fast is an astonishing book combining arresting portraits of mothers and fathers who are themselves children with a devastating depiction of a community living on the edge of economic despair." --Carol Gilligan "Joanna Lipper's book works as a literary representation of the film 8 Mile . Like the hit movie, Lipper's investigation of the young white working class in a burnt-out, post-industrial, rust belt city portrays lives of a not-so-quiet desperation." --Nelson George, author of Hip-Hop America, Lipper has actually conveyed the social_and_personal history of a growing class...for whom there is little help and less hope., ...a haunting testament to the vast, unfinished business of the abandonment of the working class....This is a necessary, enraging work.
Copyright Date
2003
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2003-049862
Dewey Decimal
306.874/3
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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