Florist's Daughter - Couverture rigide

Hampl, Patricia

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0151012571 ISBN 13 : 9780151012572

Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007

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Book by Hampl Patricia

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During the long farewell of her mother?s dying, Patricia Hampl revisits her Midwestern girlhood. Daughter of a debonair Czech father, whose floral work gave him entr?e into St. Paul society, and a distrustful Irishwoman with an uncanny ability to tell a tale, Hampl remained, primarily and passionately, a daughter well into adulthood. She traces the arc of faithfulness and struggle that comes with that role from the postwar years past the turbulent sixties. The Florist?s Daughter is a tribute to the ardor of supposedly ordinary people. Its concerns reach beyond a single life to achieve a historic testament to midcentury middle America. At the heart of this book is the humble passion of people who struggled out of the Depression into a better chance, not only for themselves but for the common good. Widely recognized as one of our most masterful memoirists, Patricia Hampl has written her most intimate, yet most universal, work to date.

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PRAISE FOR PATRICIA HAMPL

"Better than any writer at work today, Hampl knows how to welcome and sustain her reader in what she calls, in one of many characteristic insights that grace this book, the 'fascinatingly indeterminate narrative space between fiction and documentary' that is memoir." --Alice Kaplan, author of French Lessons, The Collaborator, and The Interpreter

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0151012571
• ISBN 13: 9780151012572
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240