The Florist's Daughter
β Scribed by Hampl, Patricia
- Book ID
- 109917195
- Publisher
- Mariner Books
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 155 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780151012572
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
This New York Times Notable memoir of a middle-class, middle-America family is a "beautiful bouquet of a book" (Entertainment Weekly).
During the long farewell of her mother's dying, Patricia Hampl revisits her midwestern girlhood.Daughter of a debonair Czech father, whose floral work gave him entrΓ©e to St. Paul society, and a distrustful Irishwoman with an uncanny ability to tell a tale, Hampl remained, primarily and passionately, a daughter well into adulthood. She traces the arc of faithfulness and struggle that comes with that roleβfrom the postwar years past the turbulent sixties. At the heart of The Florist's Daughter is the humble passion of people who struggled out of the Depression into a better chance, not only for themselves but for the common good. Widely recognized as one of our most masterly memoirists, Patricia Hampl has written an extraordinary memoir that is her most intimate, yet most universal, work to date.This transporting...
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