Like Family - Softcover

Mclain, Paula

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316909092 ISBN 13: 9780316909099

Publisher: Back Bay Books, 2004

Synopsis

No missing pages, Water Damage, or stains. Spine shows creasing. This is a readable copy.

About this title

About the Author:

After leaving California in 1987, Paula McLain spent the next decade in personal and professional vagabondage. She has worked in auto plants and hospitals and has been a cocktail waitress, a Christmas tree salesperson, a pizza maker, and an English teacher. In 1996, she received her MFA from the University of Michigan. Since then she has been in residence at Bread Loaf, Yaddo and The MacDowell Colony. At work on a novel, she lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

Review:

"What makes LIKE FAMILY so remarkable are not the peculiar circumstances of Paula McLain's childhood but the depth of understanding that she brings to those circumstances, and the beautiful prose in which she renders that understanding. Seldom have I seen so vividly evoked the need to belong to some, any, kind of family and the painful negotiations that time brings to even our closest intimacies." (Library Journal Margot Livesey, author of Eva Moves the Furniture 2003-01-00)

"Ms. McLain's close observation of the sisters' perils jumps with life and wry merriment. They take their pleasures and their sorrows as they arrive; even their times of desolation are narrated in language that conveys a kind of ragged glory-the tattered flag of their kinship still waves!" (Paula Fox, author of Borrowed Finery)

About this edition

• Publisher: Back Bay Books
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0316909092
• ISBN 13: 9780316909099
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 292