When Rosemary Mahoney, in 1998, took a solo trip down the Nile in a seven-foot rowboat, she discovered modern Egypt for herself. As a rower, she faced crocodiles and testy river currents; as a female, she confronted deeply-held beliefs about foreign women while cautiously remaining open to genuine friendship; and, as a traveller, she experienced ...
From the award-winning author of "Whoredom in Kimmage" comes a brilliant memoir of an unforgettable time: the true story of Mahoney's summer in the employ of writer Lillian Hellman--an exquisite and grueling exercise in humiliation, hypocrisy, failure, and frustration.
Having journeyed to such far-flung sacred destinations as Bethlehem, Varanasi, and Lourdes, Mahoney recounts her spiritual adventures while offering insights into what draws pilgrims to certain places and why pilgrimages remain so popular.
A year before the protests in Tiananmen Square, Rosemary Mahoney participated in a teaching exchange between an American college and Hangzhou University in China. Eager to absorb as much Western culture as possible, the students embraced Mahoney and allowed her a rare glimpse of Chinese life. In this book she conveys the unsettling mixture of ...
Striking black-and-white photographs made during the photographer's nomadic travels, all with an ironic sense of humor and a highly developed notion of the absurd.
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