{"product_id":"taking-my-life-jane-rule-9780889226739","title":"Taking My Life","description":"\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, Rule 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 the larger philosophical questions that were to preoccupy Rule throughout her literary career and showcases the origins and contexts that gave shape to her 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-appeal to avid followers of her work, delighted to discover another of her books that has, until now, remained unpublished.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jane Rule\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0889226733\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780889226739\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Talonbooks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/31\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Lambda Literary Awards - Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2011 pg. 28\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/22\/2011","brand":"Jane Rule","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926775922943,"sku":"9780889226739","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_605003b4-85c4-4ecb-a5f3-e3d5b1d17f9e.jpg?v=1681084941","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/taking-my-life-jane-rule-9780889226739","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}