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In this appealing memoir, the young author finds salvation from a dead-end Manhattan office job in an activity not often associated with New York: surfing.
Beach's story has been told before, in her appealing memoir "Shakespeare & Company" (1959) and more exactingly in Noel Riley Fitch's "Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation" (1983).
"I wanted to be thought of as exotic and mysterious, some kind of a heroine," she writes in this appealing memoir.
In her blurb for this appealing memoir, the former Mrs Mark E Smith Laura Salengerer, AKA "Brix" Smith-Start – says of Steve Hanley that "for all the years" she played in the Fall she "never knew what he was thinking".
In the Times, Alain de Botton, much preoccupied with religion, found Richard Holloway's memoir Leaving Alexandria appealing: "Holloway's loss of faith is attractive in that it is presented to us with genuine sorrow, rather than as a confident movement towards an allegiance with reason and science.
There's a naturalism to this approach that makes "Les Goddesses" appealing in a way that tell-all memoirs are not.
Well-worn memoir material, this, but it's saved from tedium by Swofford's brisk storytelling, deadpan humor, and appealing swagger.
He becomes a staunch, appealing figure — a male nurturer who calls to mind Oates's moving portrait of her first husband, Raymond Smith, in her memoir, "A Widow's Story".
