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More copies of this ISBN:This title in other formats:The Florist's Daughterby Patricia Hampl
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:During the long farewell of her mother’s dying, Patricia Hampl revisits her Midwestern girlhood. Daughter of a debonair Czech father, whose floral work gave him entrŽe into St. Paul society, and a distrustful Irishwoman with an uncanny ability to tell a tale, Hampl remained, primarily and passionately, a daughter well into adulthood. She traces the arc of faithfulness and struggle that comes with that role from the postwar years past the turbulent sixties. The Florist’s Daughter is a tribute to the ardor of supposedly ordinary people. Its concerns reach beyond a single life to achieve a historic testament to midcentury middle America. At the heart of this book is the humble passion of people who struggled out of the Depression into a better chance, not only for themselves but for the common good. Widely recognized as one of our most masterful memoirists, Patricia Hampl has written her most intimate, yet most universal, work to date. Review:"With delicate precision and wry humor and in a style at once poetic and spare, [Hampl] recounts her years growing up in St. Paul, MN. This wistful air coloring her writing is well balanced by her fond yet dry characterization of the colorful, sometimes caustic mother of Hampls younger years. A thoughtful and elegant memoir." (Library Journal, Sep 1 2007 )Review:"All of us eventually become orphans and lose not only our parents physical presence but also the opportunity to keep asking, over and over, for their stories. Patricia Hampls lovely bruising book takes us to that final rupture between mother and daughter. Hampl offers the bloom of meditation on the mysteries between parents and children, between the past and the present, and between those old adversaries, beauty and truth." Review:"A memoir for memoirists to admire — with language that pierces." (starred) Review: "The Florists Daughter is a magical book. Patricia Hampls compassionate sense of history and understanding of human nature is matched only by the crystalline poetry of her words." (Thrifty Umigar, author of The Space Between Us)Review:"In this age of tabloid tell-alls and sloppy hyperbole, The Florists Daughter is a cool tonic: a memoir that sings the quiet anthem of good daughters everywhere. In Patricia Hampls hands, supposedly ordinary people in allegedly ordinary lives are rendered with luminous grace and quiet beauty." Review:"In her new memoir, Hampl mulls over the notion of forgiveness while recalling her charistmatic Czech father, her dying mother and Midwestern childhood she never really left behind." Synopsis:A tribute to the ardor of supposedly ordinary people, this memoirs concerns reach beyond a single life to achieve a historic testament to mid-century middle America, in Hampls most intimate, yet most universal, work to date. About the AuthorPATRICIA HAMPL is the author of four memoirs—A Romantic Education, Virgin Time, I Could Tell You Stories, and Blue Arabesque—and two collections of poetry. She has received a MacArthur Fellowship, among many other awards. She lives in St. Paul and is Regents Professor at the University of Minnesota. Table of ContentsA series of vignettes from The Florists Daughter appeared in an essay titled Lilac Nostalgia in Five Points Journal in Spring 2003 What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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