The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade - Hardcover

Fessler, Ann

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594200947 ISBN 13: 9781594200946

Publisher: Penguin Group USA, 2006

Synopsis

Rare book

About this title

Review:

A wrenching, riveting book. ("Chicago Tribune")

A remarkably well-researched and accomplished book. ("The New York Times Book Review")

Haunting. ("People")

Journalism of the first order, moving and informative in equal measure. (San Francisco Chronicle)

A remarkably well-researched and accomplished book. (The New York Times Book Review)

A wrenching, riveting book. (Chicago Tribune)

Haunting. (People)

About the Author:

Ann Fessler is professor of photography at Rhode Island School of Design and a specialist in video-installation art. She won a prestigious Radcliffe Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, for 2004, to complete her extensive research for this book. She is also the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts; the LEF Foundation, Boston; the Rhode Island Foundation; the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities; Art Matters, New York; and the Maryland State Arts Council. An adoptee herself, she begins and ends the book with the story of her own successful quest to find her birth mother.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Group USA
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1594200947
• ISBN 13: 9781594200946
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 354