American Daughter: Discovering My Mother - Hardcover

Kendall, Elizabeth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679452923 ISBN 13: 9780679452928

Verlag: Random House Inc, 2000

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A poignant memoir of life in St. Louis from the 1940s through the 1960s focuses on the relationship between the author and her mother as they endure a terrible accident, a less-than-perfect marriage, and a mother-daughter bond that is often tenuous. 20,000 first printing.

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tifully crafted book, Elizabeth Kendall tells the story of a family, of a passionate attachment between a mother and a daughter and the sudden tragedy that tears it apart. American Daughter is also a brilliant portrait of wellborn women's lives in cities and towns in the post-World War II era, as Kendall evokes how difficult it was to become anything other than an American daughter, which meant being a dependent woman.  
        
Occupying a coveted place in St. Louis's privileged high society, Henry and Betty Kendall seemed to be the American dream come true: six children, a sprawling house, a legacy of higher education at Harvard and Vassar. Yet underneath lay the flawed marriage of an idealistic young woman who made her eldest daughter her best friend and turned civil rights into her salvation. Elizabeth maintained the family silence as eccentricities began to appear in her father's behavior, along with whispers of financial

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• Verlag: Random House Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0679452923
• ISBN 13: 9780679452928
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 225