A candid account of Jan Morris's ten-year transition from manhood to womanhood, and its concomitant pains, joys, frustrations and discoveries.
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“A very good writer telling a profoundly poetic story...In fact, it is the author's extreme subjectivity that makes the book as good as it is...After reading this most charming of all Cinderella stories, one feels that sex is just as much a conundrum as ever, which is to say, according to the American Heritage Dictionary, 'a riddle in which a fanciful question is answered by a pun,' or 'a problem admitting of no satisfactory solution.'” —The New York Times
“Certainly the best first-hand account ever written by a traveler across the boundaries of sex. That journey is perhaps the ultimate adventure for a human being, but although it has been the subject of myth and speculation since ancient times, it is an authentically modern experience...What Jan Morris does offer, through her life and her work, is a window on the wondrous possibilities of humankind.” —Newsweek
“This book is a very well-written account of some of the emotional factors which eventually led the author, by then in his forties, to submit to expensive surgery in Casablanca.” —The Washington Post Book World
"This is a beautiful book. I found it to be melancholic, courageous, and wise. That it's subject matter is Jan Morris's transsexual journey almost seems secondary to her incredible prose and the clarity of her honesty and introspection. Beyond the issue of gender, she searches for an answer to that most elusive of questions: who am I?" —Jonathan Ames
“The finest descriptive writer in our time, of the watercolor kind.” —Rebecca West
“If there is anything typical about Miss Morris's experience, however, she has successfully disguised it.” —The Times Literary Supplement -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Taschenbuch .
“Certainly the best first-hand account ever written by a traveler across the boundaries of sex. That journey is perhaps the ultimate adventure for a human being, but although it has been the subject of myth and speculation since ancient times, it is an authentically modern experience...What Jan Morris does offer, through her life and her work, is a window on the wondrous possibilities of humankind.” —Newsweek
“This book is a very well-written account of some of the emotional factors which eventually led the author, by then in his forties, to submit to expensive surgery in Casablanca.” —The Washington Post Book World
"This is a beautiful book. I found it to be melancholic, courageous, and wise. That it's subject matter is Jan Morris's transsexual journey almost seems secondary to her incredible prose and the clarity of her honesty and introspection. Beyond the issue of gender, she searches for an answer to that most elusive of questions: who am I?" —Jonathan Ames
“The finest descriptive writer in our time, of the watercolor kind.” —Rebecca West
“If there is anything typical about Miss Morris's experience, however, she has successfully disguised it.” —The Times Literary Supplement -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Taschenbuch .
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A second revised edition of this account of Jan Morris' transexuality and change of sex, with a new introduction and an additional chapter.
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Born into the English upper-class with a boarding school education , a succesful 2nd WW army officer's experience, a journalist with private means,The Times Correspondent with Hillary's 1952 team first climbing of Mt. Everest,a husband and father with a (still)understanding wife. Jan Morris made a succesful transfer of Gender retaining her family and career. Not a book for people intersted in tabloid sensationalism.. but a nicely presented book that might make the 'rites of passage' for others easier. Few Autobiographies can ever have been as honest as this
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It was after the Guardian review when the book was first published that I bought the book and as a transitioning transsexual I can identify quite closely with what Ms. Morris writes. Her style is very lucid as one would expect from the author of Venice and gives a realistic description of the transsexual condition, though each human experience is unique.
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I felt like this was the worst gender-bender book I have read. Not only did Morris offend my sexuality, but he offended man-kind. I was titilated how Morris was so appalled by women's treatments because of their behavior, yet he lead a self-fulfilled prophecy after the operation.
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