Still Love in Strange Places (Revised) Revised Edition Contributor(s): Kephart, Beth (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393324478 ISBN-13: 9780393324471 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $20.85 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2003 Annotation: When Beth Kephart met and fell in love with the artist who would become her husband, she had little knowledge of the coffee farm he came from. Kephart's "lush. . . poetic evocation of Salvadorian life, its magic and tragedies" ("Los Angeles Times") offers her testament to the ties that bind. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography | Women - History | Latin America - Central America |
Dewey: B |
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.54" W x 8.42" (0.47 lbs) 238 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
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Publisher Description: When Beth Kephart met and fell in love with the artist who would become her husband, she had little knowledge of the place he came from--an exotic coffee farm high in the jungle hills of El Salvador, a place of terrifying myths and even more frightening realities, of civil war and devastating earthquakes. Yet, marriage, she finds, means taking in not only the stranger who is one's lover but also a stranger's history--in this case, a country, language, people, and culture utterly foreign to a young American woman. Kephart's transcendently lyrical prose (often compared to the work of Annie Dillard) has already made her a National Book Award finalist. In each of her memoirs she has written about love, using her own life to seek out universal truths. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kephart, Beth: - Beth Kephart is the award-winning author of a memoir trilogy. She has written about writing and the imagination for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, and Parenting. She lives in Devon, Pennsylvania. |