Durations: A Memoir and Personal Essays

(11)
Durations: A Memoir and Personal Essays image
ISBN-10:

1609405447

ISBN-13:

9781609405441

Author(s): Osborn, Carolyn
Released: Sep 01, 2017
Publisher: Wings Press
Format: Paperback, 200 pages

Description:

Durations gathers a memoir and seven personal essays that explore the life of the author, from her World War II-era childhood in Tennessee to her adolescence as a small town cheerleader to life as an author, traveler and rancher.
Like the main character in her interconnected and often autobiographical short stories, Carolyn Osborn is extremely curious about her occasionally eccentric family, yet she must continually accept the mysteries of reality—a mother, diagnosed as incurably schizohprenic, kept in a state mental hospital, next door neighbors who appear to live on almost nothing, the eternal balance of caring deeply for an unforgiving Texas Hill Country landscape while traveling from Europe to Egypt to the Galapagos.
Aware of the need for family mythology, she often mines family history (one of her forebears may have followed Daniel Boone over the Cumberland Gap and later settled in Tennessee; his long rifle hangs in Osborn’s living room) and her own distinctly Southern background that witnesses a fading 19th-century morality, readily accepts individual eccentricity, and celebrates storytelling as a way of understanding the world.

Best prices to buy, sell, or rent ISBN 9781609405441




Frequently Asked Questions about Durations: A Memoir and Personal Essays

You can buy the Durations: A Memoir and Personal Essays book at one of 20+ online bookstores with BookScouter, the website that helps find the best deal across the web. Currently, the best offer comes from and is $ for the .

The price for the book starts from $7.88 on Amazon and is available from 14 sellers at the moment.

If you’re interested in selling back the Durations: A Memoir and Personal Essays book, you can always look up BookScouter for the best deal. BookScouter checks 30+ buyback vendors with a single search and gives you actual information on buyback pricing instantly.

As for the Durations: A Memoir and Personal Essays book, the best buyback offer comes from and is $ for the book in good condition.

Not enough insights yet.

Not enough insights yet.