These Precious Days
Essays
New York : Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2021], ©2021.
Format: Large Print
Edition: First Harper large print edition.
Description: vi, 424 pages (large print) : portrait ; 23 cm
In this collection of essays, Patchett turns her writer's eye on her own experiences and transforms the private into the universal, providing us all a way to look at our own worlds anew.
Contents:
Introduction: essays don't die -- Three fathers -- First Thanksgiving -- The Paris tattoo -- My year of no shopping -- The worthless servant -- How to practice -- To the doghouse -- Eudora Welty, an introduction -- Flight plan -- How knitting saved my life. Twice. -- Tavia -- There are no children here -- A paper ticket is good for one year -- The moment nothing changed -- The nightstand -- A talk to the Association of Graduate School Deans in the Humanities -- Cover stories -- Reading Kate DiCamillo -- Sisters -- These precious days -- Two more things I want to say about my father -- What the American Academy of Arts and Letters taught me about death -- Epilogue: a day at the beach.
Subjects:
Patchett, Ann.
Patchett, Ann -- Books and reading.
Patchett, Ann -- Authorship.
Authors, American -- 20th century.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Women authors, American -- Biography.
Large type books.
Large type books.
Authors, American -- Southern states.
Patchett, Ann.
Patchett, Ann -- Books and reading.
Patchett, Ann -- Authorship.
Authors, American -- 20th century.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Women authors, American -- Biography.
Large type books.
Large type books.
Authors, American -- Southern states.
ISBN:
9780063118034
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