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Synopsis
"Astonishes in its honesty. . . . What greater gift can a memoir bring than a self revealed in all its grubby particulars?"
-Rebecca Pepper Sinkler, The Washington Post Book World
"A diary of a day that encapsulates the memories, reflections, and yearnings of a lifetime as gracefully as a Fabergé egg captures spring sunlight in its tiny interior."
-Kirkus Reviews
"For Grumbach, living is an adventure on the magic carpet ride of memory, reverie, and imagination. Life in a Day affirms the ripples of meaning which can emanate out of simple rituals, happenings, and activities."
-Frederic A. Brussat, Body Mind Spirit
"[Life in a Day] illuminates the way memory has woven itself into the fabric of a rich life. . . . To spend a day with [Grumbach] is rewarding."
-Patricia Roth Schwartz, Lambda Book Report
"[A] wise and lovely little book."
-Barbara Holliday, Detroit Free Press
"This is a profoundly optimistic book: a validation of the strength and the tranquility to be found within the confines of the human mind."
-Publishers Weekly, starred review
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With the recent plethora of memoirs delving into traumatic lives and despairing experiences, this quiet memoir from the author of The Book of Knowledge and Fifty Days of Solitude is charmingly refreshing. We follow the 77-year-old novelist through a day, eavesdropping on her daily fussings and the interior conversations she conducts with the muses that enable her to write, including Dylan Thomas, Somerset Maugham, and her friend, the late May Sarton. With digressive sidetrips inspired by whatever distracts Grumbach from her quiet daily processes, we enter a rich world of memory and thought informed by a lifetime of books and letters. Sorry, no teenage traumas or bouts with alchoholism or bulimia here--just a fine artist at the top of her craft.
About the Author
Doris Grumbach is author of Coming into the End Zone, Extra Innings, and Fifty Days of Solitude, among other books. She has also been a contributing editor to The New Republic and The New York Times Book Review, and a book reviewer for National Public Radio. She lives in Maine.
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- PublisherBeacon Press
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0807070890
- ISBN 13 9780807070895
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages140
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