Under a Wing: A Memoir - Softcover

Lindbergh, Reeve

Softcover

ISBN 10: 143914883X ISBN 13: 9781439148839

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2009

Synopsis

The“poignant and superbly written memoir”(Chicago Tribune) of growing up as the daughter of Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.

· Famous family: Reeve Lindbergh was the youngest child in her family. Her parents were so successful at avoiding publicity that it took years before she realized that they were famous.

· Personal anecdotes: Reeve writes about events that weren’t known to the public. This is the story of what it was like to be a part of that extraordinary family.

· Beautiful, touching writing: Reviewers nationwide praised the quality of writing in Reeve Lindbergh’s memoir when it was first published ten years ago.

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Review:

Reeve Lindbergh's memoir offers a uniquely intimate portrait of her family led by her intensely private father, aviator Charles Lindbergh, and mother, writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Under a Wing captures both her parents' complex personalities with immediacy and intimacy. Reeve explores the contrast between a loving father who "would parade imaginary animals across our backs" and the exacting patriarch who, upon return from his frequent absences, called each of his five children into his office to peruse a handwritten list of their achievements and failures. She seems anguished in her response to one of Charles's notorious, bigoted speeches: "How could someone who spoke the words my father did in 1941," she asks, "how did such a person then raise children who by his instruction and his example, day after day and year after year, had learned from him ... that such words were repellent and unspeakable?" She offers too a blunt but tender portrait of Anne in old age--she has been physically and mentally impaired by a series of stroke--that proves she has a mature understanding of a deeply loving woman who nonetheless always held some part of herself in reserve for her writing. This impressive memoir brings readers close to the private people within two legendary public figures.

From the Author:

Reeve Lindbergh is the author of many children’s books and the novels No More Words: A Journal of My Mother, Anne Morrow  Lindbergh,  and  Forward  from  Here:  Leaving  Middle Age—and  Other  Unexpected  Adventures.  She  lives  with  her husband, Nat Tripp, on a farm in northern Vermont.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 143914883X
• ISBN 13: 9781439148839
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224