The Summer of the Great-Grandmother (Crosswicks Journal Series #2)

by Madeleine L'Engle

Overview

This journal offers a loving and poignant portrait of L'Engle's mother in old age that is more about living than dying.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062545060
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	01/01/1984
Series:	Crosswicks Journal Series , #2
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.58(d)

About the Author

Madeline L'Engle, the popular author of many books for children and adults, has interspersed her writing and teaching career with raising three children, maintaining an apartment in New York and a farmhouse of charming confusion which is called "Crosswicks."

Date of Birth:

January 12, 1918

Date of Death:

September 6, 2007

Place of Birth:

New York, NY

Place of Death:

Litchfield, CT

Education:

Smith College, 1941

Editorial Reviews

"An honest and courageous account of the long summer the author watched her ninety-year-old mother slowly die." -The Horn Book

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