No Hurry to Get Home For many years, sh. She was the concubine of a Chinese poet in Shanghai in the 1930s—where she did indeed become an opium addict for two years. Well reviewed upon first publication, the book wa
| Title | : | No Hurry to Get Home |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.66 (145 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1497638283 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 324 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-23 |
| Genre | : |
Editorial : About the AuthorA revolutionary woman for her time and an enormously creative writer, Emily Hahn broke all of the rules of the 1920s, including by traveling the country dressed as a boy, working for the Red Cross in Belgium, being the concubine to a Shanghai poet, using opium, and having a child out of wedlock. Hahn kept on fighting against the stereotype of female docility that characterized the Victorian era and was an advocate for the environment until her death at age ninety-two.
Emily Hahn (1905–1997) was the author of fifty-two books, as well as one hundred eighty-one articles and short stories for the New Yorker from 1929 to 1996. She was a staff writer for the magazine for forty-seven years. She wrote novels, short stories, personal essays, reportage, poetry, history and biography, natural history and zoology, cookbooks, humor, travel, children’s books, and four autobiographical narratives: China to Me (1944), a literary
Originally published in 1970, under the title Times and Places, this book is a collection of twenty-three of her articles from the New Yorker, published between 1937 and 1970. Well reviewed upon first publication, the book was re-published under the current title in 2000 with a foreword by Sheila McGrath, a longtime colleague of hers at the New Yorker, and an introduction by Ken Cuthbertson, author of Nobody Said Not to Go: The Life, Loves and Adventures of Emily Hahn. One of the pieces in the book starts with the line, “Though I had always wanted to be an opium addict, I can’t claim that as a reason why I went to China.” Hahn was seized by a wanderlust that led her to explore nearly every corner of the world. She traveled solo to the Belgian Congo at the age of twenty-five. She was the concubine of a Chinese poet in Shanghai in the 1930s—where she did indeed become an opium addict for two years. For many years, sh
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Good things can be found here; for example culinary nuggets scattered through the book about how to cook bacon, prepare citrus zest etc are interesting and useful. Kenney's novel "Teenage Commies from Outer Space" didn't survive and he obviously spent a lot of time alone so there are a lot of pages chronicling the bickering and backstabbing at the Lampoon offices while Kenney ran off to live in a tent or make millions of dollars in Hollywood.
There have been millions of laughs in the years since Lampoon and ANIMAL HOUSEit's just too bad Bluto and the Stork weren't here to hear them.. I didn't like the beach scenes in this book! I found the pics boring and lacking in color! Also short on instructions.. If you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes in a great restaurant, this book is for you. It is mostly a distraction and is thoroughly boring. The premise of this book is a year in the life of a great restaurant at a t
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