Small Fry
On Sale: 09/05/2018
Small Fry
On Sale: 09/05/2018
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Goodreads Choice Awards
About the Book
A Top Ten Book of the Year
The New York Times, The New Yorker, People, San Francisco Chronicle
A Best Book of the Year
Publishers Weekly, NPR, GQ, The Week, Vogue UK, Los Angeles Times
“Brennan-Jobs is a deeply gifted writer. . . . Beautiful, literary and devastating.” —The New York Times Book Review
“A masterly Silicon Valley gothic.” —Vogue
Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents—artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs—Lisa Brennan-Jobs’s childhood unfolded in a rapidly changing Silicon Valley. When she was young, Lisa’s father was a mythical figure who was largely absent from her life. His rare attention was thrilling, but he could also be cold, critical and unpredictable. Part portrait of a complex family, part love letter to California in the seventies and eighties, Small Fry is a “shockingly honest and beautifully understated” (Vogue UK) debut.
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Critical Praise
“Here is a literary coming-of-age memoir of the highest order, the story of a child trying to find her place between two radically different parents, identities, and worlds...Small Fry is a wonder of a book, and Lisa Brennan-Jobs is a wonder of a writer.” - Jamie Quatro, author of Fire Sermon
“As clear-eyed, amusing, honest, unsentimental and sad as any memoir I’ve read. . . . Ruefully compassionate and wise. No other book or film has captured Steve Jobs as distinctly as this one. The love between father and daughter, thwarted and baffled as it often is, comes through beautifully.” - —Phillip Lopate
“Brennan-Jobs is a deeply gifted writer … Beautiful, literary and devastating.” - New York Times Book Review
“A masterly Silicon Valley gothic.” - Vogue
“Mesmerizing, discomfiting reading … A book of no small literary skill.” - The New Yorker
“A memoir of uncommon grace, maturity, and spare elegance.” - San Francisco Chronicle
Product Details
- ISBN: 9781443457095
- ISBN 10: 1443457094
- Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers
- On Sale: 09/05/2018
- Pages: 400
- List Price:29.99 CAD
- BISAC1 : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
- BISAC2 : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Rich & Famous
- BISAC3 : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
