The Miss Dennis School of Writing and Other Lessons from A Woman's Life
The first book by Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Steinbach is an intimate, personal collection of essays, remembrances, and columns that follows in the creative nonfiction tradition of Anna Quindlen and May Sarton. While it recounts the experience and observations of a divorced, working mother, it expresses hopes and fears universal to all women.
Steinbach focuses on the big and small things of life: the bond between lifelong friends; coming to grips with loss; the quiet, everyday moments between parents and child; the spiritual connection to nature; the realities of being a single parent. She writes of the people who’ve touched her own life: the influential teacher; the worldly aunt; the writer hero; the woman she sees regularly at a bus stop as both head to work. She offers us beautifully written lessons she’s learned during a lifetime of changes and challenges.
As a nationally distributed Baltimore Sun columnist and feature writer, and as a writer for Glamour, McCall’s, Redbook, Woman’s Day, and Reader’s Digest, Steinbach clearly qualifies as one of the best of today’s literary journalists. Because she sees the world through such clear eyes, and fashions sentences with such an obvious love of language, readers of Miss Dennis will come away in touch with the thread of humanity that weaves through their lives, in touch with the memories of their own childhoods and experiences. They will be both uplifted and enriched.
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Steinbach focuses on the big and small things of life: the bond between lifelong friends; coming to grips with loss; the quiet, everyday moments between parents and child; the spiritual connection to nature; the realities of being a single parent. She writes of the people who’ve touched her own life: the influential teacher; the worldly aunt; the writer hero; the woman she sees regularly at a bus stop as both head to work. She offers us beautifully written lessons she’s learned during a lifetime of changes and challenges.
As a nationally distributed Baltimore Sun columnist and feature writer, and as a writer for Glamour, McCall’s, Redbook, Woman’s Day, and Reader’s Digest, Steinbach clearly qualifies as one of the best of today’s literary journalists. Because she sees the world through such clear eyes, and fashions sentences with such an obvious love of language, readers of Miss Dennis will come away in touch with the thread of humanity that weaves through their lives, in touch with the memories of their own childhoods and experiences. They will be both uplifted and enriched.
The Miss Dennis School of Writing and Other Lessons from A Woman's Life
The first book by Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Steinbach is an intimate, personal collection of essays, remembrances, and columns that follows in the creative nonfiction tradition of Anna Quindlen and May Sarton. While it recounts the experience and observations of a divorced, working mother, it expresses hopes and fears universal to all women.
Steinbach focuses on the big and small things of life: the bond between lifelong friends; coming to grips with loss; the quiet, everyday moments between parents and child; the spiritual connection to nature; the realities of being a single parent. She writes of the people who’ve touched her own life: the influential teacher; the worldly aunt; the writer hero; the woman she sees regularly at a bus stop as both head to work. She offers us beautifully written lessons she’s learned during a lifetime of changes and challenges.
As a nationally distributed Baltimore Sun columnist and feature writer, and as a writer for Glamour, McCall’s, Redbook, Woman’s Day, and Reader’s Digest, Steinbach clearly qualifies as one of the best of today’s literary journalists. Because she sees the world through such clear eyes, and fashions sentences with such an obvious love of language, readers of Miss Dennis will come away in touch with the thread of humanity that weaves through their lives, in touch with the memories of their own childhoods and experiences. They will be both uplifted and enriched.
Steinbach focuses on the big and small things of life: the bond between lifelong friends; coming to grips with loss; the quiet, everyday moments between parents and child; the spiritual connection to nature; the realities of being a single parent. She writes of the people who’ve touched her own life: the influential teacher; the worldly aunt; the writer hero; the woman she sees regularly at a bus stop as both head to work. She offers us beautifully written lessons she’s learned during a lifetime of changes and challenges.
As a nationally distributed Baltimore Sun columnist and feature writer, and as a writer for Glamour, McCall’s, Redbook, Woman’s Day, and Reader’s Digest, Steinbach clearly qualifies as one of the best of today’s literary journalists. Because she sees the world through such clear eyes, and fashions sentences with such an obvious love of language, readers of Miss Dennis will come away in touch with the thread of humanity that weaves through their lives, in touch with the memories of their own childhoods and experiences. They will be both uplifted and enriched.
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| ISBN-13: | 9781890862107 |
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| Publisher: | Bancroft Press |
| Publication date: | 08/20/1996 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 307 |
| File size: | 363 KB |
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