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Connecting : twenty prominent authors write about the relationships that shaped our lives
- Title
- Connecting : twenty prominent authors write about the relationships that shaped our lives / edited by Lee Gutkind.
- Publication
- New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, [1998], ©1998.
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- Additional Authors
- Gutkind, Lee.
- Description
- 245 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Offering readers insight and wisdom as it sparks their memories of remarkable people in their lives, Connecting chronicles the personal and familial relationships of some of America's best-loved authors.
- Among the writers contributing to this compelling anthology are Joyce Carol Oates, who writes about the end of a friendship and the beginning of adulthood; Alice Hoffman, who reveals how her grandmother's legacy of advice is a testament to her immortality; and Alec Wilkinson, who explores a woman's coping with the murder of her husband.
- Series Statement
- Creative nonfiction reader
- Uniform Title
- Creative nonfiction reader series.
- Subjects
- Contents
- Introduction: From Fiction and Poetry - to Nonfiction: An Evolution -- They All Just Went Away / Joyce Carol Oates -- Accommodations / Richard Ford -- Rising from the Plains / John McPhee -- Mother's Last Request / B. J. Nelson -- Oranges and Sweet Sister Boy / Judy Ruiz -- My Father's Life / Raymond Carver -- The Beauty Parlor / Hilary Koski -- Leaving the Folk / Phillip Richards -- Welcome Sweet Springtime / Jack Cady -- Housewives, Fieldhusbands / Julene Bair -- Scorekeeping / Bob Cowser, Jr. -- Advice from My Grandmother / Alice Hoffman -- The Iceman / Richard Shelton -- My Home Court / Daniel Stolar -- The Story of My Father / Phillip Lopate -- My Mother and Louis B. Mayer / Enid Baron -- Dependent / Rebecca McClanahan -- Teeth / Lee Gutkind -- Daddy Young and Old / Deborah Tannen -- Nancy Gahl / Alec Wilkinson.
- ISBN
- 0874779049 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 97022756
- OCLC
- 475090052
- ocn475090052
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries