Safekeeping
Author(s): Thomas, Abigail
A beautifully crafted and inviting account of one woman's life, Safekeeping offers a sublimely different kind of autobiography. Setting aside a straightforward narrative in favor of brief passages of vivid prose, Abigail Thomas revisits the pivotal moments and the tiny incidents that have shaped her life: pregnancy at 18; single motherhood (of three ) by the age of 26; the joys and frustrations of three marriages; and the death of her second husband, who was her best friend. The stories made of these incidents are startling in their clarity and reassuring in their wisdom.
This is a book in which silence speaks as eloquently as what is revealed. Openhearted and effortlessly funny, these brilliantly selected glimpses of the arc of a life are, in an age of excessive confession and recrimination, a welcome tonic.
Product Information
General Fields
- :
- : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- : Anchor
- : 0.175994
- : 17 April 2001
- : .5 Inches X 5.25 Inches X 8 Inches
- : books
Special Fields
- : Thomas, Abigail
- : Paperback
- : 0
- : English
- : 305.48/9654 B
- : 192