Spare Scenes - Couverture souple

Herbert, Gillian P.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0615690343 ISBN 13 : 9780615690346

Editeur : Word Project Press, 2012

Synopsis

When Gillian Herbert dug through a file of old family papers she launched a journey of exploration. Flipping through faded photos she recalled in raw black and white detail the moments that shaped her relationship with her parents. Skilfully crafted scenes from her youth reveal how illness, disability, and war combined with parental hopes, fears, and delusions to define her family. Herbert re-enters her experience as a child and young adult to present the stories from a youthful perspective, while steadily chipping away at the hard rock of her beliefs to reveal what her younger self could not see—the cost of keeping her father’s secrets. British understatement adds power to unsettling discoveries that sweep both writer and reader from Canada to England to Egypt and back to England. So pour a cup of tea, as the Herbert family so often did, and consider the depth in Spare Scenes.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Born in Canada, raised in England, Gillian P. Herbert lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for over twenty-five years. For ten years she lived on stunningly beautiful ranch land in the foothills of the Sierras. Now she lives in Portland, OR, along with her partner. When not writing, she spends time in her glass studio creating fused glass bowls, platters and restoring stained glass panels..

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Word Project Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0615690343
• ISBN 13: 9780615690346
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 138
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible