Among Friends - Couverture souple

Fisher, M F K

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1593760248 ISBN 13 : 9781593760243

Editeur : Counterpoint, 2004

Synopsis

In Among Friends M. F. K. Fisher begins her recollections in Albion, Michigan, but they soon lead her to Whittier, California, where her family moved in 1912, when she was four. The "Friends" of the title range from the hobos who could count on food at the family's back door to the businessmen who advertised in Father's paper--but above all they are the Quakers who were the prominent group in Whittier. Mary Frances Kennedy found them unusual friends indeed, in the more than forty years that she lived in Whittier she was never invited inside a Friend's house.

Her portraits of her father, Rex--her mentor, himself the editor of the local newspaper--her mother, Edith, and the other members of her family are memorable and moving. Originally published in 1970, Among Friends provides a fascinating glimpse into the background and development of one of our most delightful and best-loved writers, Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Robert Grudin is a writer and philosopher, and the author of the metafictional novel Book, as well as Mighty Opposites: Shakespeare and Renaissance Contrariety, The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation, On Dialogue: An Essay in Free Thought, Time and the Art of Living, The Most Amazing Thing, and American Vulgar: The Politics of Manipulation Versus the Culture of Awareness. He holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of California, Berkeley and received a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Counterpoint
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1593760248
• ISBN 13: 9781593760243
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 306
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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