Ivy Days: Making My Way Out East

By Paul Spencer and Philip Engelman

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316850780
• ISBN13: 9780316850780
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A perfect memoir for [neurotic] English majors everywhere!

During my first months of college, this book was a great comfort to me. Toth writes, quite affectingly, about being homesick and feeling out of place; she also manages to capture the excitement of being away from home, immersed in books she'd always dreamed of reading, and finally, realizing she's found a place for herself. The subtitle of the book says it all-- this modest memoir quite vividly describes the process of creating...

Chrysalis

In IVY DAYS, published in 1984, Susan Allen Toth remembers her student residence at the prestigious Eastern college for women, Smith, during the latter half of the 1950s, and her subsequent post-graduate time at UC Berkeley. It's also a sequel to her previous book BLOOMING, in which she recollects her experiences growing up in Ames, Iowa in the late 40s and early 50s. Taken together, the books are a coming-of-age story that...

A richly told memoir of college life.

_Ivy Days_ is the memoir of Toth's college experiences in the late 50's and early 60's. Her narrative is honest, humorous, and filled with moments that will strike a chord with anyone who has traveled through the halls of higher education