| The Miss Dennis School of Writing: And Other Lessons from a Woman's Life Contributor(s): Steinbach, Alice (Author), Knox, Connie (Editor), Bortz, Bruce (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0963124625 ISBN-13: 9780963124623 Publisher: Bancroft Press OUR PRICE: $20.66 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 1996 Annotation: This first book by Pulitzer Prize Winner Alice Steinbach is an intimate, personal collection of essays, remembrances, and columns that follows in the creative non-fiction tradition of Anna Quindlen and May Sarton. While it recounts the experiences 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 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Self-help - Literary Collections | Essays - Religion | Inspirational |
| Dewey: 814.54 |
| LCCN: 96085002 |
| Physical Information: 1.13" H x 6.32" W x 8.8" (1.31 lbs) 307 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this collection of her essays and columns, Pulitzer Prize-winning Baltimore Sun journalist Steinbach seeks to rescue from insignificance some of the small events that make up a life. These pieces thus explore, with quiet grace, the unexpected pleasures that are gleaned from an appreciation of the ordinary - a sleeping cat, a blooming garden, a well-cooked meal. Such familiar - even ostensibly mundane - details of our lives, Steinbach maintains, play a far more important part in shaping our identities and our sense of our relationship to the world than do the exotic encounters or momentous events to which we attach much significance. Alternately poignant and humorous, sedately contemplative and bristling with emotional energy, Steinbach's various musings on the daily rhythms of her own moods and experiences transform everyday life into a rich and meaningful journey. |
