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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
246 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a personal account of the author's youth, his parents, and the 1950s upstate New York town they struggled to escape, recounting the encroaching poverty and illness that challenged everyday life and the dreams his mother instilled that inspired his career.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The acclaimed and beloved author of Hourglass now gives us a new memoir about identity, paternity, and family secrets--a real-time exploration of the staggering discovery she made last year about her father, and her struggle to piece together the hiddenthe story of her own life"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
259 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author recounts his lifelong love affair with books, from his largely "bookless" boyhood and discovery of literature as a young man, to the evolution of his writing career and his passion as a book collector who opens bookstores of rare and collectible volumes.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Anne Lamott writes about community, family and faith in essays that are wise, irreverent, funny and poignant--a style that has become her trademark. Now in Small Victories, Lamott has once again written a brilliant and insightful book that offers a message of hope that celebrates the triumph of light over the darkness in our lives. Our victories over hardships and pain may be small, they may be infrequent, but they keep us going and they often come...
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