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In the Company of Strangers by Mary Meigs

In the Company of Strangers

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Mary Meigs

Talonbooks · Print & ebook · January 1, 1991

Mary Meigs is one of the eight women who portray themselves in the film The Company of Strangers, a “semi-documentary” National Film Board production, released in 1990 to overwhelming critical and popular acclaim.

Personal MemoirsWomen's Livesmemoir
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Who it’s for
Meigs’s film experience opens into reflections on time, old age, magic, and binding.
Themes
Time and aging, Past and present, Magic and binding
Pacing
Reflective

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About this book

Mary Meigs is one of the eight women who portray themselves in the film The Company of Strangers, a “semi-documentary” National Film Board production, released in 1990 to overwhelming critical and popular acclaim. Meigs spent two years writing this extraordinary narrative, which begins as her story of being in the film and unfolds into a gentle, intricate meditation on the experience of time, old age, magic and binding.

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Time becomes still and circular as the women’s self-images and film images, their past and present, are bound inextricably with the filmmaker’s vision.

Time and Binding

Meigs’s film experience opens into reflections on time, old age, magic, and binding.

Come here for

  • Meigs’s account of being one of eight women in The Company of Strangers
  • A meditation on time, old age, magic, and binding

Expect

  • A narrative that moves from the film into meditation
  • Past and present intertwined with the filmmaker’s vision

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Personal Memoirs66%
Women's Lives36%

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Publisher categories

  • Women's Lives
  • Personal Memoirs
  • Women in Literature
Authors
Mary Meigs
Publisher
Talonbooks
Published
January 1, 1991
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Time and aging · Past and present · Magic and binding
Reading lane
Women's Lives