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Paperback. Condizione: Good. The Favorite is, in Cig Harvey's words, an arrow to the heart. Its sixty-four poems are gently shaped into three parts as Watson leads readers into her childhood's world of social privilege, recognizes the psychological costs inhabitants pay, and demonstrates a wide and wonderful range of reactions.Most of the fifteen poems in Part I are based on childhood memories. Four sisters ride uncomfortably in the back seat of the big car, ordered not to wrinkle their Sunday dresses, while their brother rides shotgun and wears what he wants. A girl manages to paddle around in an old canoe, but her sense of freedom comes from keeping herself hidden, or pretending she's Pocahantas. Gender norms strongly favor the family's only boy, and its powerful, charismatic father, whose presence inspires awe and fear, compliance and rebellion. Straight women, passive women, pretty and well-dressed women-enjoy, question, and are damaged by their privilege. In Another Hurricane Coming, for example, we understand what's lost when a mother no longer wants her children to feel the wind. The fifteen poems in Part I stretch the threads first spun in childhood into adolescence, by turns angry, loving, subtle and compassionate. When I Think of My Mother, I See a Closed Door, ends the section appropriately.Part I is longer-- its voice generally older, more accepting, more free in its metaphors, andmarked by a wonderfully wry sense of humor. As Richard Blanco says, Watson tenderly, yetunabashedly, speaks to the allure and trappings of womanhood as she traces its arc from the innocentexpectations of a girl, to the fear of a teenager forced to conform, to a fully actuated woman . self-aware and fully alive with all her past and her future, her pain and healing, her losses and her newfound hopes.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. The Favorite is, in Cig Harvey's words, an arrow to the heart. Its sixty-four poems are gently shaped into three parts as Watson leads readers into her childhood's world of social privilege, recognizes the psychological costs inhabitants pay, and demonstrates a wide and wonderful range of reactions.Most of the fifteen poems in Part I are based on childhood memories. Four sisters ride uncomfortably in the back seat of the big car, ordered not to wrinkle their Sunday dresses, while their brother rides shotgun and wears what he wants. A girl manages to paddle around in an old canoe, but her sense of freedom comes from keeping herself hidden, or pretending she's Pocahantas. Gender norms strongly favor the family's only boy, and its powerful, charismatic father, whose presence inspires awe and fear, compliance and rebellion. Straight women, passive women, pretty and well-dressed women-enjoy, question, and are damaged by their privilege. In Another Hurricane Coming, for example, we understand what's lost when a mother no longer wants her children to feel the wind. The fifteen poems in Part I stretch the threads first spun in childhood into adolescence, by turns angry, loving, subtle and compassionate. When I Think of My Mother, I See a Closed Door, ends the section appropriately.Part I is longer-- its voice generally older, more accepting, more free in its metaphors, andmarked by a wonderfully wry sense of humor. As Richard Blanco says, Watson tenderly, yetunabashedly, speaks to the allure and trappings of womanhood as she traces its arc from the innocentexpectations of a girl, to the fear of a teenager forced to conform, to a fully actuated woman . self-aware and fully alive with all her past and her future, her pain and healing, her losses and her newfound hopes.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. When the president of a toy company, guilty of a tragic negligence, is sentenced to a year of minimum-wage work in an Oregon diner, he loses his familiar Manhattan privileges. But Giles, now Tony, Gibson gradually learns to appreciate the tangles and complexities of ordinary lives, and those who somehow manage to keep on going with compassion and wit. The diner's (secretly kindhearted) boss has other secrets too, as does the curmudgeonly cook. (He'd gone AWOL from Vietnam half a century earlier.) Much of the novel is set in the Sunnyside Up Diner, where staff and clients mingle. There's a drug ring just outside town, headed by the ex-sheriff, a lavender farm whose workers tend to be undocumented, a gay couple who aren't quite in or out of the closet. Each character is an individual, created uniquely by Shari Lane's colors, textures, language, subtle symbols, and deep sense of balance.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condizione: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condizione: Good. Good condition ex-library book with usual library markings and stickers.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

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paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Paperback. Condizione: Good. Linda Seidel's lightly fictionalized memoir lets readers feel what it's like for a naturally skeptical, yet persistently na ve, older woman to watch her parents age out of life, to think about the epiphanies they enable her to have, and to reflect on the lives of elders she didn't appreciate until she'd worn through some years herself. The elders whose stories Seidel reconstructs were quintessentially American--meaning complex, subtle and challenging--whether it's a shell shocked grandfather who immigrated to Pennsylvania almost a century ago after fighting for Germany in a World War, or a mother who was secretly spitting out her pills at the Lucky Stroke Nursing Home in Missouri in 2018.The Chronicles are organized organically, starting with a Prologue about Belinda's search for a genre. The genre which she discovers is a series of vignettes, gently shaped and pruned so that readers can study them individually, as smaller sets, and cumulatively. Thus, for example, the initial series of nine short pieces is gathered under the title Women and Mothers. It includes stories about her mother's childhood (Trudi's Parents), her grandmother's old age (Lotte), and several about her mother Trudi's last months, branching into dead-on accurate sketches of contemporary nursing home life and workers (Marty the Nurse). The final vignette of Women and Mothers (titled Wasting Time: Love and Class) involves reflections on a pair of potential marriages which didn't happen-reflections which lead naturally to a new, two-part section titled Belinda Reflects.The seven vignettes gathered next, Men and Fathers, offer detailed glimpses into the lives of a prosperous, sometimes pompous, great-grandfather, his son the charming, womanizing (?) Lyle, and especially his grandson, Leonard, the professional musician and music teacher whose slow decline into dementia eventually brought him to the Lucky Stroke, near Belinda and his ex-wife, Trudi. In these pieces, as Belinda later reflects, she's portraying them not at their best but at . their most human.Our memoirist's piquant reflections nourish all her stories as surely as sap does a tree. In the four sets of stories called Belinda Reflects, which alternate with sets labeled Orphans or Weddings and Funerals, the musings are more like rainfall or manna. The Belinda Chronicles are rooted in Seidel's family history, factual enough to be a memoir though the names have been changed. They're enriched by the author's 21st century awareness of patriarchy, feminism, class biases, and anti-immigrant prejudice. One further tribute to Belinda's roots comes in the center of the book, where, just after a chapter titled Peonies, Seidel has slipped in seven family photos, the oldest taken about 1910, the newest including herself as a toddler. The family tree uses Chronicles pseudonyms, but the dates are accurate.In summary, we quote from the Acknowledgements section which ends the book: I] regard my family's collective memories and stories as legacies, a kind of inheritance exploited and treasured by the Belinda character in these vignettes. My greatest debt is to my elders, whose stories I have appropriated and who might feel, alternately, outraged and honored on every page, were they alive to read me.…

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paperback. Condizione: Like New. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind.