{"product_id":"this-is-not-the-ivy-league-9780803245204","title":"This Is Not the Ivy League","description":"Mary Clearman Blew's education began at home, on a remote cattle ranch in Montana. She graduated to a one-room rural school, then escaped, via scholarship, to the University of Montana, where, still in her teens, she met and married her first husband. \u003ci\u003eThis Is Not the Ivy League\u003c\/i\u003e is her account of what it was to be that girl, and then that woman--pressured by husband and parents to be the conventional wife of the 1950s, persisting in her pursuit of an education, trailed by a reluctant husband and small children through graduate school, and finally entering the job market with a PhD in English only to find a whole new set of pressures and prejudices. \u003cbr\u003eThis memoir is Blew's behind-the-scenes account of pursuing a career at a time when a woman's place in the world was supposed to have limits. It is a story of both the narrowing perspective of the social norm and the ever-expanding possibilities of a woman who refuses to be told what she can and cannot be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMary Clearman Blew is the author of the acclaimed essay collection \u003ci\u003eAll but the Waltz\u003c\/i\u003e and the memoir \u003ci\u003eBalsamroot\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the editor of \u003ci\u003eWhen Montana and I Were Young: A Memoir of a Frontier Childhood\u003c\/i\u003e, available in a Bison Books edition. Her most recent novel, \u003ci\u003eJackalope Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e, is also available in a Bison Books edition. She is a professor of English at the University of Idaho and has twice won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, once in fiction and once in nonfiction. She is also the winner of a Western Heritage Award and the Western Literature Association's Distinguished Achievement Award.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bison Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50413083525394,"sku":"9780803245204","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_32044b44-6182-404e-82d9-deb406972048.jpg?v=1729345217","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/this-is-not-the-ivy-league-9780803245204","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}