Florist's Daughter by Of English Patricia Hampl

Florist's Daughter by Of English Patricia Hampl

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 entr 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 role--from 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 work will resonate with readers of Francine du Plessix Gray's Them: A Memoir of Parents and JeannetteWall's The Glass Castle.

Patricia Hampl first stepped onto the literary scene with A Romantic Education, a Cold War memoir about her Czech heritage. Four of her books have been named Notable Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review. Hampl's work has appeared in The New Yorker, Paris Review, Granta, The American Scholar, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays. In 1990 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. In addition, she has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Bush Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts (twice, in poetry and prose), Ingram Merrill Foundation and Djerassi Foundation. Hampl teaches fall semesters in the English MFA program at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

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ISBN 13	9780151012572
ISBN 10	0151012571
Title	Florist's Daughter
Author	Of English Patricia Hampl
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Houghton Mifflin
Year published	2007-10-01
Number of pages	240
Prizes	Winner of Society of Midland Authors Award (Adult Nonfiction) 2008, Winner of Christopher Awards (Books for Adults) 2008, Winner of Minnesota Book Award (Memoir) 2008, Commended for Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award (Nonfiction) 2008
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