Liberty's Quest: The Compelling Story of the Wife and Mother of Two Poetry Prize Winners, James Wright & Franz Wright
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (802 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1931741964 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 424 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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Richard R. Blake said The Myth and Reality of the American Dream. "Liberty's Quest" is the amazing memoir of Liberty Kovacs. Her family roots go back to the Dodecanese Islands in the Aegean Sea of Greece.The book is divided into three parts. Part I includes her early family life which was centered on the customs and beliefs of the Greek Orthodox Church,Liberty tells of her paternal and maternal roots, their marriage, her birth, and her siblings. She relates stories of family feuds, memories of school, her love for reading and of the. A Modern Woman jenny wren Dr. Kovacs has written not only her own personal history, but a "coming of age" for an American woman, struggling with being the child of immigrants who came here for freedom, as well as carving out her own freedom to be who she wanted to become outside of her expected role as a woman.. "Escaping Patriarchy" according to June Gillam. One in a series of "True Stories of Courage and Inspiration" offered by RDR Publishers, Liberty's Quest traces the strenuous journey to personal freedom by the daughter of illegal Greek immigrants. Liberty, known to friends as "Libby," was an independent adventurer even as a young girl, barely keeping inside cultural limits set by her patriarchal father who saw no life for her other than to marry a man he chose from his circle of Greek friends in the Ohio Valley. A li
Breaking free from the patriarchal rule of her Greek immigrant family, she set an uneasy but independent course that led to her becoming a nurse and marrying fellow Ohioan, the poet James Wright. Yet with each blow, her spirit rose again and again, never giving up on herself or her sons, whom she writes about with disarming openness. Liberty Kovacs' life story has all the elements of the American Dream, both its myth and its reality. Bereft but courageous, Liberty set a new course and headed west to San Francisco where she had a scholarship to study psychiatric nursing. A single mother, she experienced triumphs in her profession, married again and bore a third son - that household too fell victim to unhappiness and despairs. Headed for the fabled Land of Happiness, Life broke in with all its unpredictable misery: living in Minneapolis with their two sons, the marriage was soon riven by alcoholism, angers, unspeakable trauma and eventually bitter divorce. -Merrill Leffler, publisher of Dryad Press, author of Partly Panemonium, Partly Love, Take Hold
Kovacs is a self-actualized Greek-American octogenarian who grew up (and lived much of her adult life) between cultures. She not only changed generational patterns and went to nursing school and college at the price of being disowned by her father, but she earned her Ph.D. . at age 52 and worked as a marriage and family therapist into her late seventies
. She not only changed generational patterns and went to nursing school and college at the price of being disowned by her father, but she earned her Ph.D. at age 52 and worked as a marriage and family therapist into her late seventies. About the Author Kovacs is a self-actualized Greek-American octogenarian who grew up (and lived much of her adult life) between cultures