{"product_id":"taking-my-life-paperback-1","title":"Taking My Life - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJane Rule\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWith an afterword by LINDA M. MORRA\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiscovered in her papers in 2008, Jane Rule's autobiography is a rich and culturally significant document that follows the first twenty-one years of her life: the complexities of her relationships with family, friends and early lovers, and how her sensibilities were fashioned by mentors or impeded by the socio-cultural practices and educational -politics of the day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn writing about her -formative years, she is indeed \"taking\" the measure of her life, assessing its contours of pleasure and pain, accounting for how it evolved as it did. Yet not -allowing the manuscript to be published in her lifetime was an act of -discretion: she was considering those who might have been affected by being represented in her work not as confidently -emancipated as she had always been. She must also have appreciated the ambiguity of the title she chose, with all its implications of suicide: at the end of her writing life, she was submitting herself to critical scrutiny, -allowing herself to be vulnerable as a person to the critique of her readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeeply moving and elegantly witty, \u003cem\u003eTaking My Life\u003c\/em\u003e probes in emotional and intellectual terms the larger philosophical questions that were to preoccupy her throughout her literary career, and showcases the origins and contexts that gave shape to Rule's rich intellectual life. It will especially -appeal to avid followers of her work, delighted to discover another of her books that has, until now, remained unpublished.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJane Rule was born in New Jersey in 1931 and came to Canada in 1956, where she later taught at the University of British -Columbia. Her first novel, \u003cem\u003eDesert of the Heart\u003c\/em\u003e (1964), in which two women fall in love in 1950s Reno, Nevada, was successful as a 1985 feature film titled \u003cem\u003eDesert Hearts\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRule emerged as one of the most respected writers in Canada with her many novels, essays and collections of short stories, -including \u003cem\u003eTheme for Diverse Instruments\u003c\/em\u003e (1975). She received the Canadian Authors Association best novel and best short story awards, the American Gay Academic Literature Award, the U.S. Fund for Human Dignity Award of Merit, the Canadian -National Institute for the Blind's Talking Book of the Year Award and an honorary doctorate of letters from the University of British Columbia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1996, Jane Rule received the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award for an Outstanding Literary Career in British Columbia. She passed away in 2007.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.3 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 15, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Lambda Literary Awards (2012)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47180596084985,"sku":"9780889226739","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/OVZHMURXb2g3MGZGSSszTHdzVXFhdz09_2d357109-63f6-4bdf-8226-4d8f4966664e.webp?v=1767740840","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/taking-my-life-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}