A Certain Loneliness
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A Certain Loneliness

A Memoir

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A Certain Loneliness

A Memoir

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After contracting polio as a child, Sandra Gail Lambert progressed from braces and crutches to a manual wheelchair to a power wheelchair—but loneliness has remained a constant, from the wild claustrophobia of a child in body casts to just yesterday, trapped at home, gasping from pain. A Certain Loneliness is a meditative and engaging memoir-in-essays that explores the intersection of disability, queerness, and female desire with frankness and humor. Lambert presents the adventures of flourishing within a world of uncertain tomorrows: kayaking alone through swamps withalligators; negotiating planes, trains, and ski lifts; scoring free drugs from dangerous men; getting trapped in a too-deep snow drift without crutches. A Certain Loneliness is literature of the body, palpable and present, in which Lambert's lifelong struggle with isolation and independence—complete with tiresome frustrations, slapstick moments, and grand triumphs—are wound up in the long history of humanity's relationship to the natural world.

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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9781496208620
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Social Science Biographies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Solace
  9. The Laundromat
  10. Figuring It Out
  11. Well-Nourished White Child
  12. Atlanta—1968
  13. Sex Objects
  14. Complex Math
  15. Atlanta—1984
  16. Becoming Lazy
  17. Rolling in the Mud
  18. Open-Water Swimmers
  19. Pass the Hemlock
  20. Poster Children
  21. The Art of Budgeting
  22. Mosquitoes
  23. Negotiating a Life
  24. Dehiscence
  25. May or May Not
  26. Atlanta—2007
  27. The Last Period
  28. Immoderation and Excess
  29. Looking for the V
  30. Yielding
  31. I Am Here, in This Morning Light
  32. Pride Goeth
  33. Horror in the Okefenokee
  34. I’m Fine, Thank You
  35. The Blind Girl and the Cripple Get on a Plane
  36. The Swimmer
  37. Source Acknowledgments
  38. About Sandra Gail Lambert
  39. Series List