|
Product Description
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.
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
- What Comes Next and How to Like It: A Memoir
- A Three Dog Life
- Two Pages
- Thinking About Memoir (AARP)
- The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction: Advice and Essential Exercises from Respected Writers, Editors, and Teachers
- The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
- Your Life as Story: Discovering the "New Autobiography" and Writing Memoir as Literature
- Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative
- Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs
- The Chronology of Water: A Memoir
*If this is not the "Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life" product you were looking for, you can check the other results by clicking this link. Details were last updated on Nov 4, 2024 12:01 +08.