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The Crack in the Teacup: The Life of an Old Woman Steeped in Stories
by Bodger, Joan
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 0771011199
- ISBN 13
- 9780771011191
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About This Item
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Ltd., 2001 Book. Good. Trade Paperback. First Thus. Joan Bodger born in 1923, is a self-proclaimed old woman, whose life is so intertwined with story that she cannot write about one without telling about the other. A well-known storyteller and Gestalt therapist, she finds strength in stories - her own, other people's, and the myths and legends of the world. She has lived a life that fell apart not once but several times. Each time, she pieced her life together again; she has learned to appreciate both the mosaic and the cracks.Joan's father was an officer in the United States Coast Guard; her British mother came from a distinguished and eccentric shipping family. Because of her father's job, she moved frequently from one tough American port town to another. But she also lived for a time in an English country house. Trying to fit herself into each new situation, she not only relied on the family stories she knew so well, but she also became an acute observer of the nuances of class shibboleth, racial prejudice,... She writes frankly of the discoveries of childhood, the mysteries of family life, the power of sexuality, the devastating effect of loss, and, through it all, the transforming influence of literature, of story. A remarkable old woman, she tells her story with honesty, candor, and wit. This courageous autobiography will be an inspiration to all readers -- but particularly to women dealing with the poorly charted territory of their later years.412p. illus index. Text complete, but pages slightly wrinkled .
Synopsis
Joan Bodger became a professional storyteller in 1948, when she took a course in storytelling at Columbia University. She has told stories and given workshops throughout North America, Britain, Australia, and Japan, and was a co-founder of the Toronto Storytellers School. For many years she led an annual tour, “A Winter’s Journey to King Arthur’s Britain.” Joan Bodger was also a Gestalt therapist who used folk-tale archetypes as tools of her trade. In 1982, the Chaplain’s Corps hired her to use stories as therapy with U.S. Marines. (She had been a U.S. Army staff-sergeant during World War II.) In 1986 she conducted workshops for psychiatrists and businessmen in Tokyo. Joan was director of the first Head Start Program in New York State. Her later work, as director of a therapeutic nursery school in an orphanage for New York City children, was described in a book by Harvard psychiatrist Robert Coles. In 1968, hired as Director of Children’s Services, State Library of Missouri, she was fired within a few months as a “Communist pornographer” in a cause célèbre . Her name was cleared by the American Library Association’s Office of Intellectual Freedom. In the 1980s, she directed a project, funded by the Children’s Aid Foundation of Ontario, in which she taught abusive mothers to use nursery rhymes as an alternative to violence. From 1958 to 1970, Joan reviewed children’s books for the New York Times Book Review . She has taught as an editor at Random House-Pantheon-Knopf. Twice she has been nominated for a Canadian National Magazine Award. How the Heather Looks , released in a new edition by McClelland & Stewart and Tundra Books, was first published by Viking Press (New York, 1965). Joan Bodger’s autobiography, The Crack in the Teacup was released in 2000. Joan Bodger also wrote for children: Melinda’s Ball (Oxford Canada, 1982); Clever-Lazy (reissued by Tundra in 1997); and The Forest Family (Tundra, 1999). Joan Bodger passed away in 2002. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Title
- The Crack in the Teacup: The Life of an Old Woman Steeped in Stories
- Author
- Bodger, Joan
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Edition
- First Thus
- ISBN 10
- 0771011199
- ISBN 13
- 9780771011191
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- BIOGRAPHY CANADA TORONTO CANADIAN WOMEN WRITERS
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