The Resource How we fight for our lives : a memoir, Saeed Jones
How we fight for our lives : a memoir, Saeed Jones
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The item How we fight for our lives : a memoir, Saeed Jones represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.
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- Summary
- "People don't just happen," writes Saeed Jones. "We sacrifice former versions of ourselves. We sacrifice the people who dared to raise us. The 'I' it seems doesn't exist until we are able to say, 'I am no longer yours.'" Haunted and haunting, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir. Jones tells the story of a young, black, gay man from the South as he fights to carve out a place for himself, within his family, within his country, within his own hopes, desires, and fears. Through a series of vignettes that chart a course across the American landscape, Jones draws readers into his boyhood and adolescence - into tumultuous relationships with his family, into passing flings with lovers, friends, and strangers. Each piece builds into a larger examination of race and queerness, power and vulnerability, love and grief: a portrait of what we all do for one another - and to one another - as we fight to become ourselves. An award-winning poet, Jones has developed a style that's as beautiful as it is powerful - a voice that's by turns a river, a blues, and a nightscape set ablaze. --
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- xii, 192 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501132735
- Label
- How we fight for our lives : a memoir
- Title
- How we fight for our lives
- Title remainder
- a memoir
- Statement of responsibility
- Saeed Jones
- Subject
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- African American authors
- African American authors -- Biography
- African American authors -- Biography
- Autobiographies
- Autobiographies
- Autobiographies
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / LGBT
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- Biographies
- Gay authors
- Gay authors
- Gay authors -- Biography
- Gay authors -- United States -- Biography
- Jones, Saeed
- United States
- United States
- Biographies
- African American authors
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "People don't just happen," writes Saeed Jones. "We sacrifice former versions of ourselves. We sacrifice the people who dared to raise us. The 'I' it seems doesn't exist until we are able to say, 'I am no longer yours.'" Haunted and haunting, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir. Jones tells the story of a young, black, gay man from the South as he fights to carve out a place for himself, within his family, within his country, within his own hopes, desires, and fears. Through a series of vignettes that chart a course across the American landscape, Jones draws readers into his boyhood and adolescence - into tumultuous relationships with his family, into passing flings with lovers, friends, and strangers. Each piece builds into a larger examination of race and queerness, power and vulnerability, love and grief: a portrait of what we all do for one another - and to one another - as we fight to become ourselves. An award-winning poet, Jones has developed a style that's as beautiful as it is powerful - a voice that's by turns a river, a blues, and a nightscape set ablaze. --
- Assigning source
- From dust jacket
- Awards note
- Stonewall Book Award, Israel Fishman Nonfiction Award, 2020.
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- LBSOR/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Jones, Saeed
- Dewey number
-
- 811/.6
- B
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3610.O6279
- LC item number
- Z46 2019
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Jones, Saeed
- African American authors
- Gay authors
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / LGBT
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black
- African American authors
- Gay authors
- United States
- African American authors
- Gay authors
- Label
- How we fight for our lives : a memoir, Saeed Jones
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1086495363
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- xii, 192 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501132735
- Lccn
- 2019002515
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other control number
- 40029483768
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1086495363
- Label
- How we fight for our lives : a memoir, Saeed Jones
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 1086495363
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Extent
- xii, 192 pages
- Isbn
- 9781501132735
- Lccn
- 2019002515
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 40029483768
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1086495363
Subject
- African American authors
- African American authors -- Biography
- African American authors -- Biography
- Autobiographies
- Autobiographies
- Autobiographies
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / LGBT
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- Biographies
- Gay authors
- Gay authors
- Gay authors -- Biography
- Gay authors -- United States -- Biography
- Jones, Saeed
- United States
- United States
- Biographies
- African American authors
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