Crave : a memoir of food and longing
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Published
New York : St. Martin's Press, [2018].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 260 pages ; 22 cm
Status
Northwest Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography Shelf
BIO OBRIEN 2018
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BIO OBRIEN 2018
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Adult children of divorced parents -- United States -- Biography.
Autobiographies
California -- Social life and customs.
Dakota, The (New York, N.Y.).
Mothers and daughters -- United States -- Biography.
Natural foods -- United States.
New York Metropolitan Area -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
O'Brien, Christine Scherick -- Family.
Romann, Carol Ruth.
Scherick, Edgar J. -- Family.
Television producers and directors -- United States -- Biography.
Autobiographies
California -- Social life and customs.
Dakota, The (New York, N.Y.).
Mothers and daughters -- United States -- Biography.
Natural foods -- United States.
New York Metropolitan Area -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
O'Brien, Christine Scherick -- Family.
Romann, Carol Ruth.
Scherick, Edgar J. -- Family.
Television producers and directors -- United States -- Biography.
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Published
New York : St. Martin's Press, [2018].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Notes
Description
"Christine O'Brien remembers growing up in NYC's famous Dakota apartment with her powerful father, her beautiful mother, and a food obsessesion that consumed her. Hunger comes in many forms. A person can crave a steak in the same way that she can crave a perfect family life. In her memoir, Crave: A Memoir of Food and Longing, Christine O'Brien tells the story of her own cravings. It's a story of growing up in a family with a successful, but explosive father, a beautiful, but damaged, mother and three brothers in New York City's famed Dakota apartment building. Christine's father was Ed Scherick, the ABC television executive and film producer who created ABC's Wide World of Sports as well as classic films like The Taking of Pelham One Two Three and The Heartbreak Kid. Her mother, Carol, was raised on a farm in Missouri. With chestnut hair and the all-American good looks that won her the title of Miss Missouri and a finalist place in The Miss America Contest she looked to be the perfect wife and mother. But, Carol had a craving that was almost impossible to fill. Seriously injured in a farming accident when she was a girl, she craved health even though doctors told her that she was perfectly fine. Setting out on a journey through the quacks of the East Coast, she began seeing a doctor who prescribed "The Program" as a way to health for her and her family. At first she ate nothing but raw liver and drank shakes made with fresh yeast. Then it was blended salads, the forerunner of the smoothie. And that was all she let her family eat. This well-meant tyranny of the dinner table led Christine to her own cravings for family, for food and for the words to tell the story of her hunger. Crave is that story--the chronicle of a writer's painful and ultimately satisfying awakening."--Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
O'Brien, C. S. (2018). Crave: a memoir of food and longing (First edition.). St. Martin's Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)O'Brien, Christine Scherick. 2018. Crave: A Memoir of Food and Longing. St. Martin's Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)O'Brien, Christine Scherick. Crave: A Memoir of Food and Longing St. Martin's Press, 2018.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)O'Brien, Christine Scherick. Crave: A Memoir of Food and Longing First edition., St. Martin's Press, 2018.
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