Portrait of the Artist as a Bingo Worker: On Work and the Writing Life (Harmony Memoir) - Softcover

Jakiela, Lori

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1947504002 ISBN 13: 9781947504004

Publisher: Bottom Dog Press, 2017

Synopsis

In our Harmony Memoir Series. "Lori Jakiela’s Portrait of the Artist as a Bingo Worker is a hilarious, working-class hero of an essay collection. It’s full of mall employees, flight attendants, working mothers, struggling writers, loving daughters, and adopted children, who all end up being one person named Lori Jakiela. A book of many masks, it proves the saying: there is no such thing as an ordinary life"-- Scott McClanahan, author of Crapalachia, and The Sarah Book

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Review:

On Belief is its own Kind of Truth, Maybe: "The story of what we all long for...filled with heart-wrenching scenes and moments of transcendence. It doesn't look away from the ugly, but it always finds the light that rises above it." Lee Martin

"Lori Jakiela's Portrait of the Artist as a Bingo Worker is a hilarious, working-class hero of an essay collection. It's full of mall employees, flight attendants, working mothers, struggling writers, loving daughters, and adopted children, who all end up being one person named Lori Jakiela. A book of many masks, it proves the saying: there is no such thing as an ordinary life" Scott McClanahan, author of Crapalachia and The Sarah Book...

"Lori Jakiela's Portrait of the Artist as a Bingo Worker is every bit as lively as its title. Jakiela's wide-ranging dispatches from the land of polka, sex chairs, nut-rolls and fish frys are truly unforgettable. It is said that we see the world we are looking for - Jakiela sees human kindness and human folly in equal measure, and describes all of it vividly, poignantly, and with a brilliant sense of humor. " Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic & Desir

About the Author:

Lori Jakiela is the adopted only child of a millwright and a nurse who believed work was work only if it showed in your hands. Jakiela's father and mother have been dead many years, yet she goes on writing them the way writers do when they don't say everything that needed saying in this life.

She's been a bingo worker, a waitress, a journalist, a bartender, a sportswriter, a secretary, a Things Remembered key maker, a flight attendant, more.

Raised in Trafford, Pennsylvania, Jakiela left New York in 2000. Now she teaches writing at a university. She lives with her husband, the author Dave Newman, and their two children in the house she grew up in.

The author of three previous memoirs The Bridge to Take When Things Get Serious, Miss New York Has Everything, and the award willing Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe, as well as the poetry collection Spot the Terrorist. Jakiela writes "to figure things out, to connect the dots between all that beautiful strangeness."

About this edition

• Publisher: Bottom Dog Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1947504002
• ISBN 13: 9781947504004
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216