These precious days : essays / Ann Patchett.
Record details
- ISBN: 0063118033
- ISBN: 9780063118034
- ISBN: 9780063118034
- ISBN: 0063118033
- Physical Description: vi, 424 pages (large print) : portrait ; 23 cm
- Edition: First Harper large print edition.
- Publisher: New York : Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
Summary, etc.: | 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. |
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Subject: | Patchett, Ann. Authors, American > 20th century. Large type books. |
Genre: | Essays. Autobiographies. |
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Bethel Public Library | LT 814.54 PAT (Text) | 34030150550256 | Adult Large Type | Available | - |
Booth & Dimock Library - Coventry | ALP 814.54 PAT (Text) | 33260000568999 | Adult Large Type | Available | - |
Mark Twain Library Association - Redding | 814.5 Pat LP (Text) | 33620143570956 | Adult Large Type | Available | - |
Milford Public Library | 814.54 P (Text) | 34013152408459 | Adult Nonfiction Large Type | Available | - |
Ridgefield Library | LP 814 PAT (Text) | 34010154196272 | Adult Nonfiction Large Type | Checked out | 04/07/2024 |
Southbury Public Library | 814.54 PATCHETT/LP (Text) | 34019152704748 | Adult Large Type | Available | - |