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Author: Jane PauleyPublisher: Random House Inc
ISBN-10: 140006192XSubject: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN-13: 9781400061921Topic: --
Format: HardcoverLanguage: English
Publication Year: 2004Condition: Very Good
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Although it covers the themes you'd expect in the life story of one of America's most popular broadcast journalists--the small-town upbringing, the first job at a local TV station, the momentous move to New York--the big event in Jane Pauley's autobiography is her struggle with bipolar disorder. SKYWRITING is a well-told, direct, and honest depiction of one woman's attempts to come to terms with a little-understood and terrifying illness, the onset of which forces her to quit her job as a DATELINE presenter and lands her in a supervised medical facility. (She's denied the use of sharp utensils, but, in recognition of her celebrity status, is at least permitted to wear her best pajamas.) Pauley is candid and revealing about the effects the disease has on her family--her husband, the cartoonist Garry Trudeau, is suitably alarmed to find the woman he married being replaced by an alternate personality--and her straightforward retelling of its bizarre symptoms, including impulsive shopping and a racing mind constantly devising increasingly grandiose schemes, only renders it more unsettling. That there's no fairy-tale happy ending here (although she's able to resume her television career, Pauley remains medicated on Lithium) makes SKYWRITING's frank revelations all the more remarkable.

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Length:264 pages
Height:9.8 in.
Width:7.3 in.
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“Truth arrives in microscopic increments, and when enough has accumulated–in a moment of recognition, you just know. You know because the truth fits. I was the only member of my family to lack the gene for numbers, but I do need things to add up. Approaching midlife, I became aware of a darkening feeling–was it something heavy on my heart, or was something missing? Grateful as I am for the opportunities I’ve had, and especially for the people who came into my life as a result, I couldn’t ignore this feeling. I had the impulse to begin a conversation with myself, through writing, as if to see if my fingers could get to the bottom of it. It was a Saturday morning eight or ten years ago when I began following this impulse to find the answers to unformed questions. Skywriting is what I call my personal process of discovery.”

And so begins this beautiful and surprising memoir, in which beloved broadcast journalist Jane Pauley tells a remarkable story of self-discovery and an extraordinary life, from her childhood in the American heartland to her three decades in television.
Encompassing her beginnings at the local Indianapolis station and her bright debut–at age twenty-five on NBC’s Today and later on Dateline–Pauley forthrightly delves into the ups and downs of a fantastic career. But there is much more to Jane Pauley than just the famous face on TVs. In this memoir, she reveals herself to be a brilliant woman with singular insights. She explores her roots growing up in Indiana and discusses the resiliency of the American family, and addresses with humor and depth a subject very close to her heart: discovering yourself and redefining your strengths at midlife. Striking, moving, candid, and unique, Skywriting explores firsthand the difficulty and the rewards of self-reinvention.


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Skywriting: A Life Out of the Blue

Product Category : Books
ISBN : 140006192X
Title : Skywriting: A Life Out of the Blue
EAN : 9781400061921
Authors : Jane Pauley
Binding : Hardcover
Publisher : Random House
Publication Date : 2004-08-24
Pages : 288
List Price (MSRP) : 25.95
Height : 1.2600 inches
Width : 6.3000 inches
Length : 9.4500 inches
Weight : 1.5000 pounds
Keywords : Television Performers, Women, Journalists, Biographies & Memoirs: General, Hardcover
Condition : Very Good
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