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Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories from a Decade Gone Mad Book
"Nineteen seventy-four was a bad time to go crazy" says the first line in Rescuing Patty Hearst, the thoroughly unique memoir by Virginia Holman. But despite that sentence and the suggestion of the title (Patty Hearst is a metaphor here, not a character), this work of "creative non-fiction" is extremely personal rather than generational. As with The Liar's Club by Mary Karr (whose Spartan but poetic prose Holman sometimes recalls), the strength of Rescuing Patty Hearst is that it finds universality in a very specific situation and story. One year after the famous heiress's celebrated kidnapping, in the midst of Watergate and the other turbulent events of America's most misunderstood era, the author's mother retreated with her two daughters to a rustic cabin in rural Virginia, thoroughly … read more...
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