Synopses & Reviews
It records an eventful and quotidian year crowded with literary pleasures and pains, the natural beauties and social particulars of life in coastal Maine, the mingled joys and affronts of travel to New York, Washington, Mexico, and the looming presence of illness and mortality. It is, finally, a book about the successful search for home and for inward peace.
Review
"Quite remarkable. . . . is just that: More time to listen to the music of Doris Grumbach's prose, both poetic and homely. Another chance to appreciate how vividly her life has been lived. Another opportunity to watch her hit one out of the park, top of the eighth, bases loaded." Ruth Coughlin
Review
"Such a commonplace book is to be cherished. . . . A document still too rare in literary history, an account of a woman who has lived by words. Ms. Grumbach wittily chronicles the absurdities and ambiguities of the modern American writer's life." Detroit News
Review
"Immensely likable . . . there is a rhythm to this journal that is not unlike narrative poetry, a quality to the prose that is both vivid and passionate." Kathleen Norris New York Times Book Review
Synopsis
As in Doris Grumbach's widely praised day book, , offers an immense, sometimes funny, sometimes tart, and sometimes very moving account of a closely examined life.
About the Author
Doris Grumbach's works available in Norton paperback include her earlier journal, Coming into the End Zone, and the novels Chamber Music, The Magician's Girl, The Ladies, and The Missing Person. Grumbach lives in Sargentville, Maine. Grumbach's new novel, The Book of Knowledge, is being published in hardcover.