A Place Called Home: Twenty Writing Women Remember
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The word "home" means something different to each of us. Mickey Pearlman has gathered together a group of writing women whose memories of home present a panorama of experience: Sandra Ben?tez, Maxine... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0312174438
ISBN13:9780312174439
Release Date:October 1997
Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan Trade
Length:268 Pages
Weight:0.10 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.5" x 8.3"
Customer Reviews
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Is nostalgic
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
From the essays that stick with me, I realise that each writer had a different way of approaching 'home'. If some have recalled their childhood in connection with it, some have written about their experiences in having a home of their own. The best I liked was Meg pie's 'The Lake' where she evokes a picture of her childhood personality that leaves the reader in bouts of laughter. Jill McCorkle's 'Secret Places' has built a wonder land in just few pages, recalling her childhood. Erica Jong's 'Coming Home to Connecticut' brings out her love for nature. Carole Maso's 'the Shelter of the Alphabet: Home' had me in splits that her list of homes was never ending. Rosellen Brown's 'Displaced Person' is a two fold essay. Her essay about home dealt with her identity and the way her grandfather's memories clinged to her, she has extended the concept of home from a mere house, to the people associated with it - the family. I found 'On the Continental Shelf' difficult to understand. May be next time I pick this book again, I would have developed enough as a reader to get it. Such are the essays that you can read them anytime you pick the book after a while.
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