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GLITTER AND GLUE: A MEMOIR
Author:
Corrigan, Kelly
Biographee:
Corrigan, Kelly
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Class:
Biography
Age: Adult
Language: English
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LC: CT275.C7
Print Run: 150000
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ISBN-13: 9780345532831
LCCN: 2013041936
Imprint: Ballantine Books
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Pub Date: 02/04/2014
Availability: Out of Print Confirmed
List: $26.00
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Hardcover
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Physical Description:
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224 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
H 8.52",
W 5.76",
D 1.08",
0.9 lbs.
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Brodart's Insight Catalog: Adult
Brodart's TOP Adult Titles
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Los Angeles Times Bestsellers List
New York Times Bestsellers List
New York Times Bestsellers: Adult Nonfiction
Public Library Core Collection: Nonfiction, 16th ed.
Public Library Core Collection: Nonfiction, 17th ed.
Publishers Weekly Bestsellers
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TIPS Subjects:
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Child Care/Parenting
Family Life
Biography, Individual
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BISAC Subjects: |
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Motherhood
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Americans, Australia, Sydney (N.S.W.), Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
Corrigan, Kelly,, 1967-
Corrigan, Kelly,, 1967-, Family
Corrigan, Kelly,, 1967-, Travel, Australia, Sydney
Corrigan, Kelly,, 1967-, Travel, Australia, Sydney (N.S.W.)
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Motherhood
Motherhood
Mothers and daughters
Nannies, Australia, Sydney (N.S.W.), Biography
Sydney (N.S.W.), Biography
Young women, Australia, Sydney (N.S.W.), Biography
Young women, United States, Biography
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Americans, Australia, Sydney (N.S.W.), Biography
Corrigan, Kelly,, 1967-, Family
Corrigan, Kelly,, 1967-, Travel, Australia, Sydney
Mother-daughter relationship
Motherhood
Nannies, Sydney (N.S.W.), Biography
Sydney (N.S.W.), Biography
Young women, Sydney (N.S.W.), Biography
Young women, United States, Biography
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| Brodart's TOP Adult Titles | 10/01/2013 |
| A 1992 trip to Australia is about to change everything for Kelly Corrigan. A temporary position as a nanny in Australia sends Kelly Corrigan down a path to understanding as she reflects on her mother's old saying that Kelly's father was the glitter of the family, while Kelly's mother was the glue that held them all together. Kelly applies this lesson to her own parenting as she goes on to mother her own daughters. 240pp., 150K, Auth res: Bay Area, CA, Major Adv., Tour |
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| BookPage | 02/01/2014 |
| Cheryl Strayed wrote about how the death of her mother changed her life in the best-selling Wild. In a similar and yet very different vein, Kelly Corrigan writes about the effects of her mom's presence in a wonderful new memoir, Glitter and Glue. In an earlier book, The Middle Place, Corrigan paid tribute to her larger-than-life father, "Greenie." In contrast to her optimistic cheerleader of a father, Corrigan's mother has always been a practical, worrying realist. As this steadfast woman once explained to her daughter, "Your father's the glitter but I'm the glue." Corrigan remembers as a child longing for a more lively, upbeat mom, but over the years, she's come to realize what an essential and anchoring influence this glue has been, especially now that she's a mother herself. Corrigan first began truly appreciating her mother in 1992, when she ran out of money during an after-college backpacking trip around the world. She ended up as a nanny for John Tanner, an Australian widower with two children: 7-year-old Milly and 5-year-old Martin. There was also a handsome stepson in his early 20s named Evan, who adds a romantic interest to Corrigan's Down Under adventure. As Corrigan takes on a motherly role for the Tanner children, she constantly thinks about their late mother, a cancer victim, as she gains new insight into the challenges her own mother faced raising Corrigan and her two brothers. As she eloquently explains: "God knows, every day I spend with the Tanners, I feel like I'm opening a tiny flap on one of those advent calendars we used to hang in the kitchen every December 1, except instead of revealing Mary and Joseph and baby Jesus, it's my mother. I can't see all of her yet, but window by window, she is emerging." Young Corrigan set out on her journey in search of adventure, but along the way learned that many of life's greatest rewards occur during everyday moments at home. And while this is indeed a "quiet" book in contrast to Strayed's wild exploits, Glitter and Glue is both riveting and highly readable. Framed by a tight structure and compelling writing, this memoir is refreshingly non-dysfunctional. Alice Cary. 240pg. BOOKPAGE, c2014. |
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| Booklist | 01/01/2014 |
| When mother of two Corrigan struggles with cancer, she remembers a mother she never met more than 20 years earlier in 1992 in Australia. Back then, seeking money to enhance the next leg of her round-the-world travels, Corrigan became the nanny for a widower, John, whose family--five-year-old Martin and seven-year-old Milly as well as a garage-living stepson and an in-law-apartment-living father-in-law--had just lost their matriarch to cancer. Though it's a true story, Corrigan has changed the names and some of the details to disguise identities. Here, the memories of her work as companion, surrogate mom, and onetime lover to various family members are filtered through Corrigan's experiences, good and bad, of herself as mother and herself as daughter (her mom's admonitions and pronouncements, served up in italics, support the young nanny as well as the text, then and now). The flavor of what a youthful, journal-writing Corrigan probably once hoped this book would be--a spectacle of travel and awesome experience--comes through in the writing but doesn't disturb this touching, hard-won paean to mothering and parenting, living and losing. Kinney, Eloise. 224p. AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, c2014. |
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| Kirkus Reviews | 01/01/2014 |
| Corrigan's third book (Lift, 2010, etc.) deals with the layered relationship between mother and daughter. The glitter refers to her father, George, her cheerleader, "almost impossible to frustrate or disappoint." The glue, her mother, Mary, with whom she had an "adversarial but functional" relationship, held things together with her pragmatism. After college, when Corrigan decided to go on a multicountry odyssey, her father responded, "Fantastic!" Her mother: "You should be using that money to get established, get your own health insurance, not traipse all over creation." Ironically, it was Corrigan's travels that led her to appreciate her mother's point of view. The author ran out of money in Australia and took a job as a live-in nanny for a widower. John Tanner hired her to look after his two children while he traveled for his job as an airline steward, but it was a dysfunctional household: There was John, who seldom smiled; Martin, the open, affectionate 5-year-old; Milly, the resentful 7-year-old; Pop, their 84-year-old grandfather; and Evan, John's grown stepson. "If this family were a poker hand, you'd fold," writes Corrigan. "Without that middle card, it's an inside straight, and those almost never work out." Aside from a friendly flirtation with Evan, the action is internal as Corrigan called upon her mother's directives to help her provide some stability for the family. The most affecting part of the narrative is her struggle to connect emotionally with Milly and her realization that "maybe the reason my mother was so exhausted all the time wasn't because she was doing so much but because she was feeling so much." Written in a breezy style with humor and heart, the book reminds us how rewarding it can be to see a parent outside the context of our own needs. It's that illumination that allows Corrigan to turn what starts as a complaint about her mother into a big thank you. 240pg. KIRKUS MEDIA LLC, c2014. |
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| Library Journal Prepub Alert | 08/12/2013 |
| I've been hearing this book touted for months as a stellar memoir, so listen up. Corrigan, whose New York Times best-selling memoirs include The Middle Place and Lift-and whose "Transcending" video on YouTube has been seen by five million viewers and counting-here celebrates her mother, who always said of Corrigan's father "He may be the glitter, but I'm the glue." Corrigan identified more with her fun-loving father, but when she went to Australia as a young woman in the 1990s and found herself the nanny to children whose mother had just died, she started drawing on all the wisdom her mother had imparted. With a ten-city author tour and book club promotion. 240p. LJ Prepub Alert Online Review. LIBRARY JOURNAL, c2013. |
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| Publishers Weekly | 09/16/2013 |
| Corrigan (The Middle Place) looks back on a transformative period in her life in the early 1990s. As a college grad determined to see the world and find adventure far from the safety net of her Philadelphia-based family (fans of her previous memoir have already met her outgoing dad, "Greenie," and her more stoic mom Mary, the "glitter and glue"), she travels to Australia where she soon runs out of money and takes a temporary position as a nanny to two young children whose mother has passed away. Though disappointed to find herself in a mundane job in the suburbs, Corrigan is quickly drawn into the struggle of a family trying to carry on in the absence of its most "irreplaceable" member. As widower John Tanner, his young children, and his stepson Evan wind their way into young Kelly's heart, she finds herself thinking more and more of her own mother's voice, of her solid commitment to her children, husband, and faith, and of the lessons one can learn from ordinary life, "which are big, hard beautiful things." Initially believing that "things happen when you leave the house," the young Corrigan soon finds that life's greatest dramas and deepest messages often unfold within the quiet underpinnings of relationships. The author's fans and newcomers alike will welcome this story that probes the depths of mother-daughter bonds (Feb.). 225p. PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, c2013. |
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