When We Were the Kennedys: A Memoir from Mexico, Maine - Brossura

Wood, Monica

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ISBN 10: 0544002326 ISBN 13: 9780544002326

Casa editrice: Mariner Books, 2013

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Winner of the 2012 Sarton Memoir Award

“Every few years, a memoir comes along that revitalizes the form...With generous, precise, and unsentimental prose, Monica Wood brilliantly achieves this . . .When We Were the Kennedys is a deeply moving gem!”—Andre Dubus III, author ofHouse of Sand and Fog and Townie

Mexico, Maine, 1963: The Wood family is much like its close, Catholic, immigrant neighbors, all dependent on the fathers’ wages from the Oxford Paper Company. But when Dad suddenly dies on his way to work, Mum and the four deeply connected Wood girls are set adrift. When We Were the Kennedys is the story of how a family, a town, and then a nation mourns and finds the strength to move on.

“On her own terms, wry and empathetic, Wood locates the melodies in the aftershock of sudden loss.”—Boston Globe

“[A] marvel of storytelling, layered and rich. It is, by turns, a chronicle of the renowned paper mill that was both pride and poison to several generations of a town; a tribute to the ethnic stew of immigrant families that grew and prospered there; and an account of one family’s grief, love, and resilience.”—Maine Sunday Telegram

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"Intimate but expansive...A tender memoir of a very different time."—O magazine

"It's a pleasure to linger with [Wood's] elegant prose, keen eye, and grace of thought." —Reader's Digest, "Best of America" issue

"This is an extraordinarily moving book, so carefully and artfully realized...Monica Wood displays all her superb novelistic skills in this breathtaking, evocative new memoir. Wow." —Ken Burns, filmmaker

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Book by Wood Monica

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• Editore: Mariner Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0544002326
• ISBN 13: 9780544002326
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 234