All New People, Anne Lamott
All New People, Anne Lamott
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All New People

Author: Anne Lamott

Narrator: Karissa Vacker

Unabridged: 6 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 01/22/2019

Synopsis

With generosity, humor, and pathos, Anne Lamott takes on the barrage of dislocating changes that shook the Sixties. Leading us through the wake of these changes is Nanny Goodman, a girl living in Marin County, California. A half-adult child among often childish adults, Nanny grows up with two spectacularly odd parents: a writer father and a mother who is a constant source of material. As she moves into her adolescence, so, it seems, does America. While grappling with her own coming-of-age, Nanny witnesses an entire culture's descent into drugs, the mass exodus of fathers from her town, and rapid real-estate and technological development that foreshadow a drastically different future. In All New People, Anne Lamott works a special magic, transforming failure into forgiveness and illuminating the power of love to redeem us.

About The Author

ANNE LAMOTT is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Hallelujah Anyway; Small Victories; Stitches; Help, Thanks, Wow; Some Assembly Required; Grace (Eventually); Plan B; Bird by Bird; and Traveling Mercies, as well as several novels, including Imperfect Birds and Rosie. A past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an inductee to the California Hall of Fame, she lives in Northern California.

Reviews

Goodreads review by moonglow on July 13, 2010

When I first started this book - during the first chapter or two, I thought I had made a mistake. Two mistakes, rather. The first mistake I thought I had made was choosing this book to read. Second, I thought I had prematurely declared my love for Anne Lamott after having only read Bird by Bird and......more

Goodreads review by Karen on April 29, 2024

Catching up… I remember reading this many years ago. And now that it has been donated to my Little Free Library Shed, I have had the opportunity to re-visit it and bring my review to Goodreads. This is a short novel about a woman named Nanny who is working with a psychologist via hypnosis. Nanny is de......more

Goodreads review by Josh on April 24, 2010

It annoys me that this is titled "a novel." First, because the detail is too endlessly personal (and the protagonists name too obviously a derivative of the author's) for this to be anything other than memoiric. And second, because NOTHING HAPPENS. I mean, it's brilliantly written and jam-packed wit......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on September 26, 2019

The pacing and overall content of the book deserves a two. However, I really did enjoy the author's style, realism and wit. In the end, I was left wanting as far as the plot goes. I needed more purpose to the story to keep me fully invested and interested.......more

Goodreads review by Ann on October 07, 2019

More like 2.4. I liked much of her writing style. She was very into using the 5 senses to describe things. Some of those descriptions were very lovely. My issue was more with the story. It didn't go anywhere. It skipped a whole bunch of time that I was interested in reading about. That would have be......more

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