If Nobody Calls, I'm Not Home: The Open Letters of Bim Nakely - Couverture souple

Hazo, Samuel

 
9781951319052: If Nobody Calls, I'm Not Home: The Open Letters of Bim Nakely
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1951319052 ISBN 13 : 9781951319052
Editeur : Wiseblood Books, 2020

Synopsis

Bim Nakely, an outspoken single woman in her mid-seventies, has retired from her job as a seamstress. Having raised her niece’s two sons after her niece’s death and having lived to see both of them happily married, she now feels “unnecessary.” She has no regrets, but she cannot help feeling somewhat passe. Although her adopted sons and their wives revere her and stay in touch, she feels that her real purpose in life is behind her. To compensate for this void, she begins writing never-to-be-mailed letters to people she admired in her life---her niece Lottie, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mae West, Pope John XXIII, Ernest Hemingway, Gypsy Rose Lee, Rita Hayworth, Charlie Chaplin and others, all of whom possessed a unique courage to face challenges and survive them. Bim’s letters to them reveal her inner struggles with similar challenges against the background of events and changes in the United States and the world during the middle decades of the twentieth century. It takes several unexpected happenings to make Bim realize that she, like everyone at any age, can still become suddenly necessary in ways she never expected or imagined.

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Éditeur
Wiseblood Books
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1951319052
ISBN 13 
9781951319052
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
141
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