Secret Understandings - Softcover

Philipson, Morris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060971282 ISBN 13: 9780060971281

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1988

Synopsis

The long marriage of Chester Jackman, a federal judge, and his wife, Shelagh, survives the conflicts that trouble their children and friends

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Secret Understandings is a vibrant and richly textured portrait of Shelagh Jackman, a book illustrator who learns to cultivate the loving and complex relationships in her life while struggling to be true to her own best self, even when calamity puts her to the ultimate test-and triumph.

About the Author:

Morris Philipson (1926-2011) was the director of the University of Chicago Press from 1967 to 2000 and the author of five novels and several scholarly books.  Born in New Haven, Connecticut, he received a B.A. and M.A. from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University. He worked at Random House, Pantheon Books, Alfred A. Knopf, and Basic Books before becoming director at Chicago.  Philipson took on ambitious scholarly projects, among the largest of which was The Lisle Letters, a six-volume work that the New York Times called “one of the most extraordinary historical works in the century” and that won the Carey-Thomas Award for creative publishing in 1981.  In 1982, Philipson received the PEN American Center’s Publisher Citation. For his efforts to bring the work of French writers to English readers, in 1984 the French Ministry of Culture awarded him the Commandeur de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He also received the Association of American Publishers' Curtis Benjamin Award for Creative Publishing, an award given to those whose “creativity and leadership have left a lasting mark on American publishing.”  

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0060971282
• ISBN 13: 9780060971281
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288