Knitting Pearls - Writers Writing About Knitting

In Knitting Pearls, two-dozen writers write about the transformative and healing powers of knitting. Jodi Picoult remembers her grandmother and how through knitting she felt that everlasting love. Lily King remembers the year her family lived in Italy and a knitted hat that helped her daughter adjust to her new home. Laura Lippman explores how converting to Judaism changed not only Christmas but also her mother's gift of a knitted stocking. And Bill Roorbach remembers his first year at college when knitting soothed his broken heart and helped him fall in love again. Other contributors include Steve Almond, Jane Hamilton, Ann Leary, Nick Flynn, Lee Woodruff and knitting rock stars Jared Flood of Brooklyn Tweed and the Yarn Whisperer, Clara Parks.

About the author

Ann Hood is the author of more than a dozen books of memoir and fiction, including the best-selling novels The Book That Matters Most, The Red Thread, and The Knitting Circle. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and New York.

Summary

The rhythm, ritual and pleasure of knitting are celebrated in this new collection for lovers of both knitting and literature.

Product details

• Assisted by: Ann Hood (Editor)
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.12.2016
• EAN: 9780393353259
• ISBN: 978-0-393-35325-9
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 211 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 223 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Guides > Hobby, home > Creative design; Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, CRAFTS & HOBBIES / Needlework / Knitting, CRAFTS & HOBBIES / Needlework / Crocheting, Knitting & crochet, Literary essays, Knitting and crochet