florists daughter
by hampl, patricia
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0151012571
- ISBN 13
- 9780151012572
- Seller
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RIVER FALLS, Wisconsin, United States
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Synopsis
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 entrŽe into 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 role from the postwar years past the turbulent sixties. The Florist’s Daughter is a tribute to the ardor of supposedly ordinary people. Its concerns reach beyond a single life to achieve a historic testament to midcentury middle America. At the heart of this book 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 masterful memoirists, Patricia Hampl has written her most intimate, yet most universal, work to date.
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- Bookseller
- Sixth Chamber Used Books/Fox Den Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 890959
- Title
- florists daughter
- Author
- hampl, patricia
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0151012571
- ISBN 13
- 9780151012572
- Publisher
- Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Orlando
- This edition first published
- October 1, 2007
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