TIMES AND PLACES

by Emily Hahn ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 6, 1970

This is an extension of Emily Hahn's earlier life -- before Charles, before Carola, although they appear at the end and are both no doubt well remembered from other books. This, a memoir, fills in (not altogether, by any means) insets of her girlhood as one of six children in Chicago and her father's long illness, holding on to them while fighting off death. And then her brief and accidental stint as a mining engineer (she did hold the first degree in that area from the University of Wisconsin); a stay in Taos, New Mexico, making Christmas cards; another in New York's Village where jobless, and depressed, she finally swallowed a bottle of pills; a trip to the Belgian Congo under the influence of an anthropologist; and finally in the '30's, Japan, and then China, where she became hooked on opium and cured before she stayed on through the ""Shanghai war,"" all prefatory to the greater conflict of World War II and the difficult survival thereof. . . . Miss Hahn's audience, a reasonably secure one, will pick up the chit for the chat which is as always effortlessly easy to read.

Pub Date: Nov. 6, 1970

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Crowell

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Nov. 1, 1970

Categories: NONFICTION