HOW TO MAKE AN AMERICAN QUILT. - Hardcover

Otto, Whitney.

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9780330318860: HOW TO MAKE AN AMERICAN QUILT.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0330318861 ISBN 13: 9780330318860

Publisher: Villard Books,, 1994

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An extraordinay and moving reading experience, HOW TO MAKE AN AMERICAN QUILT is an exploration of women of yesterday and today, who join together in a uniquely female experience. As they gather year after year, their stories, their wisdom, their lives, form the pattern from which all of us draw warmth and comfort for ourselves.

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"Intensely thoughtful...honest...intelligent....The book spans half a century and addresses not only (these women's) histories but also their children's, their lovers', their country's, and, in the process, their gender's."
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
Eight women gather together over the years to piece together an extrarodinary quilt of their own imaginative devising. And as they stitch, we listen to the stories they have to tell of their successes and failures, their lives and loves, their dreams, desires, and the surprise and sometimes joy of living.
A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE COMING OUT FALL 1995
-- with Winona Ryder, Maya Angelou, and Rip Torn

About the Author:

Judith Ivey has appeared in a variety of film, television, Broadway and other stage roles. Her movie credits include: In Country, Alice, and Brighton Beach Memoirs, among others. She starred on television in the series Designing Women, and The Five Mrs. Buchanans.

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