These precious days essays
""Any story that starts will also end." As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh and intimate look into her mind and heart. At the center of The...
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New York, NY :
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2021]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
