MADELEINE'S WORLD (signed)

Hall, Brian

ISBN 10: 0142004480 / ISBN 13: 9780142004487

Published by Penquin Books, New York, 1997

About this Item

1st edition, 1997. Near Fine. 8vo., 262 pp., bound in publishers photo illustrated wraps. INSCRIBED by author to poet Kelly Cherry and her husband Burke Davis Jr. Minor wear to covers, unmarked.

Seller Inventory # 31086

Bibliographic Details

• Title: MADELEINE'S WORLD (signed)
• Publisher: Penquin Books, New York
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0142004480
• ISBN 13: 9780142004487
• Binding: Wraps
• Edition: 1st edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography & Autobiography
  • Psychology & Psychiatry

About this title

Synopsis

The perceptive and beguiling tale of a young girl's development as only her father can see it

Chosen as one of the 50 Best Nonfiction Books of the Past 25 Years by Slate 

Like most biographies, Brian Hall's charming account of his daughter Madeleine begins at her birth. But unlike most biographies, it concludes with her third birthday. Along the way, it describes Madeleine's intriguing transition from infant solipsism through toddler self-absorption to a small person's sociability. Drawing on the same subtle humor and eye for detail that imbued I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company, his acclaimed novel of the Lewis and Clark expedition, Hall gives us a look at Madeleine's milestones: her first laugh, first words, first tantrum, and brings it all to life from the inside out. By speculating on his daughter's perceptions and experience as she grows, Hall gives us candid and informed insights into the evolution of language, attachments and separations, and a youngster's curiosity and fear. What emerges is a portrait of growing consciousness in action, a universal voyage whose every revelation and frustration is captured with stunning detail and intimacy.

About the Author

Brian Hall is the author of the novels I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company, Fall of Frost, and The Saskiad, in addition to three works of nonfiction. His journalism has appeared in publications such as Time, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine. He lives in Ithaca, New York.