Motherkind: A Novel - Hardcover

Phillips, Jayne Anne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375401946 ISBN 13: 9780375401947

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2000

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Book by Phillips Jayne Anne

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Exploring the lives of characters torn between the liberation of detachment and the desire to connect, this story collection includes such tales as "Alma," in which an adolescent daughter is made the confidante of her lonely mother. Original.

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atly praised author of Machine Dreams and Shelter, a major new novel.

MotherKind is the story of Kate, whose care for her terminally ill mother coincides with the birth of her first child and the early months of a young marriage. She must, in a single year, come to terms with radiant beginnings and profound loss. MotherKind is a delicately layered narrative in which the details of daily life resonate with import and meaning.

We enter Kate's present world of first and second families, babies and lively stepchildren, neighbors and friends, baby-sitters and wise strangers. Images of her not-so-long-ago past intermingle in a turning of the seasons marked by the gradual fading of her mother, the strong woman who has been her friend, her guiding star and her counterpart across a divide of experience and years.

MotherKind immerses us in a very contemporary situation, yet deals with timeless themes. Even as

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• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0375401946
• ISBN 13: 9780375401947
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 295