Ebook {Epub PDF} North of Crazy: A Memoir by Neltje

Neltje's life story is profoundly moving--and instructive. A classic, honest, and beautifully written memoir.”–Bill Henderson, editor, Pushcart Prize and author of the memoirs Tower; Cathedral; and All My Dogs “North of Crazy is informative, passionate, compelling and extraordinarily well-written. Neltje’s remarkable story captures and combines her individuality of spirit with a personal journey that will /5(41).  · Neltje's life story is profoundly moving—and instructive. A classic, honest, and beautifully written memoir.”–Bill Henderson, editor, Pushcart Prize and author of the memoirs Tower; Cathedral; and All My Dogs “North of Crazy is informative, passionate, compelling and extraordinarily well-written. Neltje’s remarkable story captures and combines her individuality of spirit with a personal journey that Brand: St. Martin's Publishing Group.  · A memoir from publishing tycoon Nelson Doubleday’s daughter, an abstract expressionist painter. Shuttled between a Long Island mansion and a South Carolina plantation, Neltje (she prefers to be recognized by her first name only) could seemingly never satisfy her father, and her biological mother comes across as a phantom of sorts, incapable of loving her daughter.

Local artist and philanthropist Neltje reads from her book during the book reading a signing for her memoir "North of Crazy" in in the Whitney Center for the Arts building at Sheridan College. audiobook (Unabridged) mid; A Memoir By Neltje. Visual indication that the title is an audiobook. Listen to a Sample. Sign up to save your library. With an OverDrive account, you can save your favorite libraries for at-a-glance information about availability. North of Crazy is her story—written with the same fierce passion, wit, and. NORTH OF CRAZY A MEMOIR. In a memoir shot through with self-pity, Neltje chronicles the deaths of her sometimes-cruel, alcoholic father in and her mother 30 years later. The author sought refuge in marriage at age 18 and bore two children while in her early 20s, but none of that seemed to lift the despondency for long.

Neltje's life story is profoundly moving--and instructive. A classic, honest, and beautifully written memoir.”–Bill Henderson, editor, Pushcart Prize and author of the memoirs Tower; Cathedral; and All My Dogs “North of Crazy is informative, passionate, compelling and extraordinarily well-written. Neltje’s remarkable story captures and combines her individuality of spirit with a personal journey that will surprise and impress readers, page by page.”--Lee Gutkind, Editor, Creative. Neltje's life story is profoundly moving—and instructive. A classic, honest, and beautifully written memoir.”–Bill Henderson, editor, Pushcart Prize and author of the memoirs Tower; Cathedral; and All My Dogs “North of Crazy is informative, passionate, compelling and extraordinarily well-written. Neltje’s remarkable story captures and combines her individuality of spirit with a personal journey that will surprise and impress readers, page by page.”—Lee Gutkind, Editor, Creative. Neltje, an artist, philanthropist and member of the Doubleday publishing family (her full name is Neltje Doubleday Kings), remembers a full life, if not a well-examined one. North of Crazy: A.