Bibliograph

These precious days, essays, Ann Patchett

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These precious days, essays, Ann Patchett

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

portraits

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

These precious days

Oclc number

1275439953

Responsibility statement

Ann Patchett

Sub title

essays

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

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

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