Isbn: 9780375505584 - seeking rapture: scenes from a woman's life (19 risultati)

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

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

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. With dust jacket. 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.

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

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

Condizione: As New. Like New condition. Very Good dust jacket. A near perfect copy that may have very minor cosmetic defects.

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOK In this exquisite book of personal reflections on a woman's life as a child, wife, and mother, Kathryn Harrison, a writer of extraordinary gifts (Tobias Wolff), recalls episodes in her life, exploring how the experiences of childhood recur in memory, to be transformed and sometimes healed through the lives we lead as adults. At the heart of Seeking Rapture is the notion that a woman's journey is a continuous process of transformation, an ongoing transcendence and re-creation of self.…

Hardback. Condizione: Good. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOK In this exquisite book of personal reflections on a woman's life as a child, wife, and mother, Kathryn Harrison, a writer of extraordinary gifts (Tobias Wolff), recalls episodes in her life, exploring how the experiences of childhood recur in memory, to be transformed and sometimes healed through the lives we lead as adults. At the heart of Seeking Rapture is the notion that a woman's journey is a continuous process of transformation, an ongoing transcendence and re-creation of self.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good.

Condizione: Very Good. 1st. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good.

Condizione: Very Good. hardcover 100% of proceeds go to charity! May have signs of use, wear and minor cosmetic defects.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. The author re-creates episodes from her life as a child, wife, mother, and writer, examining the ways in which childhood experiences recur as memories that can be transformed and sometimes healed in adult life. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Moderate shelf wear. Noticable fading due to exposure to sunlight. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.…

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Printing. Remainder mark top edge.

hardcover. Condizione: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 1st. 8vo, 186 pp.

Hardcover. Condizione: USED Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. Random House, New York, 2003. First edition. First printing, with full number line to 2 (as was customary of Random House at time of publication). A fine copy in a fine jacket. A clean copy with price ($22.95) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. This copy has been SIGNED by Harrison on the title page (as pictured). A beautiful copy. Signed-Lit. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. In this exquisite book of personal reflections on a woman?s life as child, wife, and mother, Kathryn Harrison, ?a writer of extraordinary gifts? (Tobias Wolff), re-creates episodes in her life, exploring how experiences of childhood recur in memory, to be transformed and sometimes healed in the lives we lead as adults. At the heart ofSeekingRaptureis the notion that a woman?s life is a continuous process of transformation, an ongoing overcoming and re-creating of self. Standing in her children?s bedroom, Harrison asks, ?How did it happen that I got from there to here?? The bestselling author ofTheKissandTheSealWifewrites with honesty and grace of how her early longing for the mother who abandoned her led to a pattern of self-destructive behavior, from shoplifting to bulimia, and to yearning for ways to transcend and even erase her physical self, to become the perfect child her mother could love. As a woman, she writes of time, the relentless passage experienced by adults, in contrast to the languors of childhood, and she recalls with vividness and humor her grandmother?s attempts in her eighties to cheat on a driving test. And as a daughter, she writes of caring for her ailing mother, hoping for closure that does not come, but which she creates on her own terms. ?This is a writer at the top of her form, entirely the master of her material,? said Mary Gordon aboutTheKiss, and the same can be said aboutSeekingRapture, a book that is by turns startling, moving, insightful, and always resonant and true.…