Abigail Thomas: Safekeeping
Safekeeping
Buch
- Some True Stories from a Life
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 04/2001
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780385720557
- Bestellnummer: 5408745
- Umfang: 192 Seiten
- Gewicht: 231 g
- Maße: 208 x 132 mm
- Stärke: 13 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 17.4.2001
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
A beautifully crafted and inviting account of one woman's life, Safekeeping offers a sublimely different kind of autobiography. Setting aside a straightforward narrative in favor of brief passages of vivid prose, Abigail Thomas revisits the pivotal moments and the tiny incidents that have shaped her life: pregnancy at 18; single motherhood (of three!) by the age of 26; the joys and frustrations of three marriages; and the death of her second husband, who was her best friend. The stories made of these incidents are startling in their clarity and reassuring in their wisdom.This is a book in which silence speaks as eloquently as what is revealed. Openhearted and effortlessly funny, these brilliantly selected glimpses of the arc of a life are, in an age of excessive confession and recrimination, a welcome tonic.
Abigail Thomas
Safekeeping
EUR 15,94*