Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad
A Nonfiction, Autobiography, Memoir book. This wasn't the story I was expecting, I was expecting the story of the years Virginia Holman's mother took her...
In 1975, one year after Patty Hearst and her captors robbed Hibernia National Bank, a second kidnapping took place far from the glare of the headlines. Virginia Holman's mother, in the thrall of psychosis, spirited her two daughters to a cottage on the Virginia Peninsula, painted the windows black, and set up the house as a MASH unit for a secret war. A war that never came. The family -- captive to her mother's schizophrenia and a legal system that refused to intervene...
Download or read Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad in PDF formats. You may also find other subjects related with Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad.
- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 256 pages
- ISBN: 9780743258456 / 743258452
r1i4oSunUW.pdf
More About Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad
The story here came as a complete surprise to me as I bought it based on the title alone. As someone interested in the local Northern California association with the Hearst family, I assumed the book would add to my understanding of their history. It did, but only in a peripheral way. Basically the Hearst kidnapping was used briefly... A beautifully written crazy-mom memoir, reminiscent of Mary Karr and Jeanette Walls. There is brutal honesty, forgiveness and lovely prose in this memoir-and it doesn't read like a guts & warts tell all. I am surprised this memoir wasn't a bigger hit-it's really that well written. Additionally, I love the author's comparisons to and... This wasn't the story I was expecting, I was expecting the story of the years Virginia Holman's mother took her and her little sister to the family cottage to wait for a secret war that was never coming. Her mother believed that she was chosen to set up a field hospital at the cottage and take in the children of the secret war. Holman...
