Incognito Street: How Travel Made Me a Writer

Barbara Sjoholm arrived in London in the winter of 1970 at the age of twenty. Like countless...
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Incognito Street: How Travel Made Me a Writer by Sjoholm, Barbara

Incognito Street: How Travel Made Me a Writer

$45.88

Incognito Street: How Travel Made Me a Writer

$45.88
Author: Barbara Sjoholm
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Barbara Sjoholm arrived in London in the winter of 1970 at the age of twenty. Like countless young Americans in that tumultuous time, she wanted to leave a country at war and explore Europe; a small inheritance from her grandmother gave her the opportunity.

Over the next three years, she lived in Barcelona, hitchhiked around Spain, and studied at the University of Granada. She managed a sourvenir shop in the Norwegian mountains and worked as a dishwasher on the Norwegian Coastal Steamer. Set on becoming a writer, she read everything from Colette to Dickens to Borges, changing her style and her subject every few weeks, and gradually found her voice. Incognito Street is the story of a young woman's search for artistic, political, and sexual identity while digesting the changing world around her.

As she sheds the ghosts of her childhood, we come to know her quiet yet adventurous spirit. In moments that are tender, funny, bewildering, and suspenseful, we see an evocative look at Europe through the blossoming writer's maturing eyes.



Author: Barbara Sjoholm
Publisher: Seal Press (CA)
Published: 11/01/2006
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 8.16h x 5.64w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781580051729


Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Finalist


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/25/2006 pg. 61
Booklist 11/15/2006 pg. 17
Lambda Book Report 12/01/2007 pg. 12

About the Author
Barbara Sjoholm is the author of The Pirate Queen, a finalist for the PEN USA award in creative nonfiction. Her essays and travel journalism have appeared in The New York Times, Slate, Smithsonian, American Scholar, Antioch Review, Harvard Review, and many other publications. As Barbara Wilson, she is the author of the prize-winning memoir Blue Windows, and of numerous mysteries and other fiction, including Gaudi Afternoon, which was made into a film, and won a British Crime Writers Award. She lives in Seattle.

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