MOTHERS PA: Twenty Stories of Contemporary Motherhood - Brossura

Kenison, Katrina

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0865475113 ISBN 13: 9780865475113

Casa editrice: North Point Press, 1999

Riassunto

A collection of stories celebrates American motherhood with works by such authors as Laurie Colwin, Jane Shapiro, and Sue Miller, in an anthology that highlights such themes as high-risk pregnancies, single parenthood, and letting go.

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L'autore

Kathleen Hirsch is the author of Songs from the Alley (NPP, 1998) and A Home in the Heart of the City (NPP, 1998). She lives with her family in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.

Product Description

This remarkable collection of twenty stories about motherhood by writers who are mothers evokes every stage of the journey, from pregnancy and birth through the childhood years, adolescence, and adulthood. Together they depict the complexity of mothering in America today as woman are actually experience it. The works gathered here constitute a step toward a new mothers literature that puts to rest the long-held myth that has separated motherhood from a woman's creativity. In these pages women from all walks of life, single, married, divorced or just out of their teens and well into their eighties, rich and poor, black and white, grapple with the realities of motherhood - sacrifice and boundless joy, self-doubt and miracles of the every day. Whether you are a new mother, a seasoned mother, or a grandmother many times over you will find yourself in this book. Contributors: Mary Grimm, Laurie Colwin, Perri Klass, Kate Braverman, Molly Giles, Mary Gordon, Ronnie Sandroff, Roxana Robinson, Barbara Kingsolver, Marian Thurm, Paula K. Gover, Marsha Lee Berkman, Melissa Pritchard, Jane Shapiro, Julia Whitty, Alice Elliott Dark, J. California Cooper, Sue Miller, Eileen Fitzgerald.

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• Editore: North Point Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0865475113
• ISBN 13: 9780865475113
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352