THE BEST DAY THE WORST DAY: LIFE WITH JANE KENYON
de Hall, Donald
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Very Good
- Librería
-
Columbus, Ohio, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Boston, MA.: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good. 2005. First Edition. Hardcover in dust jacket. This book is hard-bound in black paper covered boards, with gilt stamping to the spine, in a very nice dust jacket, with some light soiling, toning and edge-wear. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and clean. This book is signed by the author Donald Hall, on the title-page. Laid-in at the front is a photograph of Donald Hall which is also signed by him at the top. From the collection of Cuthbert Christian Thambimuttu (1945-2019) of Columbus, Ohio - known to many of his bookseller, author, and illustrator friends as "Tubby." He was persistent in the pursuit of autographed books by the writers and artists he admired, including Gorey, Sendak, Heaney, Byatt, Morrison, Updike and many more. Joseph Heller once wrote to Tubby in response to one more "please sign and return" request: "This is turning out to be a hell of a lot of work!" All signed books unconditionally guaranteed to be authentic. Many of the books are inscribed to both Cuthbert and his great friend of more than two decades Antonia Gale Moss. .
Sinopsis
Donald Hall's celebrated book of poems Without was written for his wife, Jane Kenyon, who died in 1995. Hall returns to this powerful territory in The Best Day the Worst Day, a work of prose that is equally "a work of art, love, and generous genius" (Liz Rosenberg, Boston Globe). Jane Kenyon was nineteen years younger than Donald Hall and a student poet at the University of Michigan when they met. Hall was her teacher. The Best Day the Worst Day is an intimate account of their twenty-three-year marriage, nearly all of it spent in New Hampshire at Eagle Pond Farm — of their shared rituals of writing, close attention to pets and gardening, and love in the afternoon. Hall joyfully records Jane's growing power as a poet and the couple's careful accommodations toward each other as writers. This portrait of the inner moods of "the best marriage I know about," as Hall has written, is laid against the stark medical emergency of Jane's leukemia, which ended her life in fifteen months. Hall shares with readers — as if we were one of the grieving neighbors, friends, and relatives — the daily ordeal of Jane's dying, through heartbreaking and generous storytelling. The Best Day the Worst Day stands alongside Elegy to Iris as a powerful testimony to both loss and love.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Hoffman Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 76279
- Título
- THE BEST DAY THE WORST DAY: LIFE WITH JANE KENYON
- Autor
- Hall, Donald
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardcover in dust jacket
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Edición
- First Edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Lugar de publicación
- Boston, MA.
- Fecha de publicación
- 2005
- Palabras clave
- Jane Kenyon, Donald Hall, Signed
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