Flowering Judas and Other Stories by Katherine Porter

Flowering Judas and Other Stories by Katherine Porter

The Sandwich Years is the heartfelt, inspirational story of the bond between mothers and daughters, and how one woman - through caring for the person she had relied on the most - finally found herself.

Alana Kirk, married with two children and a third on the way, often found herself stretched between the various demands on her time - parenting, marriage, work, friendship, self. But when her mother suffered a massive stroke, just days after the birth of daughter Ruby, Alana's life became unrecognisable.

The next five years - 'the sandwich years' - were a time of heartbreak and difficult choices as Alana lost herself amid part-time caring for her mother, supporting her father and parenting three young daughters, while also attempting to get her career back on track. But it was also a time of growth and love as Alana rediscovered the joy her loved ones bring to her life, and learned how to find a way back to herself.

The Sandwich Years is a celebration of mothers and daughters, and everyday warriors.

(Previously published as Daughter, Mother, Me)

In the 1920s and '30s, Katherine Anne Porter emerged as a classicist among the moderns, a lapidary miniaturist whose every short story was greeted as a thing of timeless perfection. Edmund Wilson called her a first-rate artist who wrote English of a purity and precision almost unique in contemporary American fiction. Her mastery of theme and gift for characterization were hers alone among the storywriters; even her shortest works were imbued with a richness of design, incident, and experience seldom found outside long novels. Her ambition and her range of emotion and effect--from cold realism to measureless compassion, from the plainspoken to the lyrical--were unequaled in her time and have had few successors. She was, and is forever, an American original.

Darlene Harbour Unrue, volume editor, is a professor of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the author, most recently, of Katherine Anne Porter: The Life of an Artist.

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ISBN 13	9780151318117
ISBN 10	0151318115
Title	Flowering Judas and Other Stories
Author	Katherine Porter
Series	Hbj Modern Classic
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Year published	1990-04-01
Number of pages	232
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.