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Courage, Wisdom, and Love — The Children of Lovers: A Memoir of William Golding by His Daughter by Judy Golding
BY Perle Besserman
From the Publisher:“Bestselling novelist, author of Lord of the Flies, William Golding was a famously acute observer of children. What was it like to be his daughter? In this frank and engaging family memoir, Judy Golding recalls growing up with a brilliant, loving, sometimes difficult parent. The years of her childhood and adolescence saw her father change from an impecunious schoolteacher to a famous novelist. Once adult, she came to understand some of the internal conflicts which led to his writing. The Golding family life, both ordinary and extraordinary, always kept its characteristic warmth, humour, complexity, anger and love, danger and insecurity. This is a book about family and parents, about lovers and their children, and about our impact on one another — for good or ill.” | “The children of lovers, says the proverb, are orphans.” Presumably referring to her own mother and father, Judy Golding introduces her memoir with this epigraph to suggest that lovers are too involved with each other to make good parents. This bit of proverbial wisdom is soon eclipsed, however, by the author’s comp • Cancer and Radiation: A Malevolent HistoryaBOUT THE aUTHOR: jUDY bRADYJudy Brady is a long-time activist whose political birth came with the women’s liberation movement in the late 1960s. Since then her primary political activity has centered on the connection between environmental contamination and human health with an emphasis on the epidemic of cancer. She has written and spoken about this connection for many years She has edited and contributed to a book about women and cancer (1 in 3: Women With Cancer Confront an Epidemic) which questions the common view that cancer is caused by lifestyle factors through critical examination of individual experiences with the disease. In the San Francisco Bay Area she works with Greenaction, an environmental justice organization since she considers such groups as the real battle against cancer in contrast to the "disease groups" which seldom raise serious questions. by Judy Bradyc.July, 2010 For more than a decade I participated in the training of volunteers for the Charlotte Maxwell Complementary Clinic, a small organization which provides free complementary treatments and other forms of support for low-income women with cancer in the San Francisco Bay Area. Five • I want a wife! (Thanks, Judy Brady)
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