Miss Alcott's E-mail: Yours for Reforms of All Kinds - Hardcover

Bakke, Kit

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1567923119 ISBN 13: 9781567923117

Verlag: David R. Godine Publisher Inc, 2006

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Book by Kit Bakke

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A fanciful dance of correspondence through two centuries that offers insights into life's big questions.

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Shouldn’t life be more than simply showing up? Is it enough to be part of a family, make another family, earn your living and then exit stage left? Or should you engage and be engaged in a bit of purposeful shaking and shoving along the way? These are the questions that Kit Bakke urgently needs answered. Tired of self-proclaimed gurus and self-help books, she turned to a childhood role model - Louise May Alcott - for direction. She sent an e-mail to Louise, and is amazed when she receives a reply. Their correspondence becomes a dance of ideas and tales bridging the mid-1800s and the 21st century.But why Louisa? “Her abolitionist zeal, her women’s rights advocacy, her hospital work, her crazy commune days, her heartfelt desire to leave the world a better place, her humor and her energy all materialized in front of me.” writes Bakke. “Louisa was serious when she signed her letters, ‘Yours for reforms of all kinds.’ She made her life, she didn’t just live it.” When Kit Bakke came of age in the late 1960s, America was going through major social and political turmoil. She and many of her generation elected to pursue radical ways to protest the Vietnam War and civil rights injustices at home, and Bakke joined the notorious Weather Underground. Eventually she left the movement to become a mother, a wife, and a professional nurse, but persistent questions about the best way to live her life, make her contribution and find satisfaction remained.By initiating her extraordinary correspondence with Louisa May Alcott, Kit hopes to ‘pick up some clues for my friends and myself about how better to live the thirty or so years that might be remaining to us. And besides, we would be giving Louisa a treat that couldn’t be beat - a peek into the future.’

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• Verlag: David R. Godine Publisher Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1567923119
• ISBN 13: 9781567923117
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 255