The Blue Jay's Dance: A Memoir of Early Motherhood - Couverture souple

Erdrich, Louise

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0061767972 ISBN 13 : 9780061767975

Editeur : Harper Perennial, 2010

Synopsis

The Blue Jay's Dance Bestselling novelist and poet Louise Erdrich presents the exciting debut of a new form--the linked-essay--offering intimate, honest, and exquisitely lyrical meditations on the delicate balance of mothering a baby and maintaining an artistic life. "What Erdrich does so masterfully is tie together all the strings of her life".--Detroit Free Press. Full description

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

Louise Erdrich’s first major work of nonfiction, The Blue Jay’s Dance, brilliantly and poignantly examines the joys and frustrations, the compromises and insights, and the difficult struggles and profound emotional satisfactions the acclaimed author experienced in the course of one twelve–month period—from a winter pregnancy through a spring and summer of new motherhood to her return to writing in the fall. In exquisitely lyrical prose, Erdrich illuminates afresh the large and small events that every parent will recognize and appreciate.

“Moving, memorable. . . . A book that breaks ground.”—Boston Sunday Globe

“Pregnancy, birth, and caring for an infant inspire Erdrich’s reflections on being a woman, a mother, and a writer. . . . [She] transforms the mundane into a paean to the mystery and wonder of the creative force, and a celebration of family, nature, and memory.”—People

“What Erdrich does so masterfully is tie together all the strings of her life. . . . All these strings tie her to the rest of us.”—Detroit Free Press

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Louise Erdrich’s first major work of nonfiction, the New York Times-bestselling The Blue Jay’s Dance brilliantly and poignantly examines the joys and frustrations, the compromises and insights, and the difficult struggles and profound emotional satisfactions the author experienced in the course of one twelve-month period—from a winter pregnancy through a spring and summer of new motherhood to her return to writing in the fall. In exquisitely lyrical prose, Erdrich illuminates afresh the large and small events that every parent will recognize and appreciate.

Unpredictable, unpretentious, unforgettable, The Blue Jay’s Dance takes the mundane routines of everyday life and renders them marvelous. Once again, Louise Erdrich—winner of the 2012 National Book Award and a writer of astonishing insight and skill—discovers the universal within the particular moment and gives full-bodied expression to that most common and yet most mysterious of all human tasks: the passing on of life.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harper Perennial
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0061767972
• ISBN 13: 9780061767975
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240