The Road from Coorain
By Jill Ker Conway
(Vintage, Paperback, 9780679724360, 256pp.)
Publication Date: August 11, 1990
Other Editions of This Title: Hardcover (April 1989)
Categories: Australia & New Zealand - Australia, Literary, Women
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Description
One women's journey from a childhood in Australia's outback to adulthood as a successful American career woman. The Road From Coorain is about Everywoman, for it is about childhood loneliness, anguished parent-child relationships, dawning sensibility, discovering a vocation, and finding one's own sense of self.
About the Author
Jill Ker Conway is a noted historian, specializing in the experience of women in America, and was the first woman president of Smith College.











