Embalming Mom - Essays In Life

Informationen zum Autor Janet Burroway is the author of eight novels, including The Buzzards and Raw Silk ; two best-selling textbooks, Writing Fiction and Imaginative Writing ; and the forthcoming memoir Losing Tim . She is also the author of numerous plays, short stories, poetry collections, and children's books. She is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor Emerita at Florida State University and divides her time between Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, and Chicago. Klappentext In sixteen essays of wit! rage! and reconciliation! Embalming Mom chronicles loss and renaissance in a life that reaches from Florida to Arizona across to England and home again. Burroway brilliantly weaves her way through the dangers of daily life--divorcing her first husband! raising two boys! establishing a new life! scattering her mother's ashes! and sorting the meager possessions of her father. Each new danger and challenge highlights the tenacious will of the body and spirit to heal. Zusammenfassung These essays chronicle loss and renaissance in a life that reaches from Florida to Arizona across to England and home again. Burroway weaves her way through the dangers of daily life. Each new danger and challenge highlights the tenacious will of the body and spirit to heal.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Janet Burroway
• Con la collaborazione di: Patricia Hampl (Editore), Carl H. Klaus (Editore)
• Editore: University Of Iowa Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.08.2004
• EAN: 9780877459071
• ISBN: 978-0-87745-907-1
• Pagine: 139
• Dimensioni: 140 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Serie: Sightline Books: The Iowa Seri; Sightline Books: The Iowa Series in Literary Nonfiction; Sightline Books; Sightline Books: The Iowa Series in Literary Nonfiction
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Saggi, articoli culturali, critica letteraria, interviste; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata