Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life

Autori

• Thomas Abigail Thomas

Parametri

• 192 pagine
• 7 ore di lettura

• Autobiografie e memorie
• Biografie e pensieri
• Narrativa
• Racconti
• Saggistica

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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.

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2001

(In brossura)