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Just received this review from Midwest Book Review and can’t resist sending it out to friends: Synopsis: “Nine Lives: My Risky Road” by Claire Kahane is a tell-all memoir of a woman now in her eighties, who was born during the Great Depression to Jewish immigrants, and unveils to her readers the intimate self-transformations that took place in the course of nine decades.

Critique: Fascinating, compelling, engaging, exceptionally well written, “Nine Lives: My Risky Road” is an extended and riveting life story. One of those memoirs that will linger in the mind and memory of the reader long after the book itself has been finished and set back upon the shelf, “Nine Lives: My Risky Road” is especially and unreservedly recommended for community and college/university library Contemporary American Biography/Memoir collections. It should be noted for personal reading lists that this hardcover edition of “Nine Lives: My Risky Road” from Brandylane Publishers is also readily available in paperback (9781962416825, $19.95) and in a digital book format (Kindle, $7.99).

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By Claire Kahane

Claire Kahane spent part of the 1950s and 60s on the road, propelled by a lust for adventure, and the will to challenge the expectations for women of her family and culture. Years later, as a Professor of English at the University at Buffalo, and informed by her study of psychoanalysis, she wrote and edited books and essays which explored gender conflict in modern fiction, the dark appeal of Gothic literature, Holocaust trauma, and the perverse novels of Ian McEwan. Her memoir, Nine Lives, testifies to her dynamic re-invention of self over nine decades. She lives in Berkeley and continues to write both memoir pieces and literary criticism.

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