One Life: My Mother's Story
de Kate Grenville
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good Condition/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1922182052
- ISBN 13
- 9781922182050
- Librería
-
King River, Western Australia, Australia
Formas de pago aceptadas
Sobre este artículo
Text Publishing Company, Melbourne, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. First impression. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 260 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket is in very good condition, without tears or chips or other damage. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. When Kate Grenville's mother died she left behind many fragments of memoir. These were the starting point for One Life, the story of a woman whose life spanned a century of tumult and change. In many ways Nance's story echoes that of many mothers and grandmothers, for whom the spectacular shifts of the twentieth century offered a path to new freedoms and choices. In other ways Nance was exceptional. In an era when women were expected to have no ambitions beyond the domestic, she ran successful businesses as a registered pharmacist, laid the bricks for the family home, and discovered her husband's secret life as a revolutionary. One Life is an act of great imaginative sympathy, a daughter's intimate account of the patterns in her mother's life. It is a deeply moving homage by one of Australia's finest writers. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Australia; 20th century; ISBN: . ISBN/EAN: 9781922182050. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 8916. . 9781922182050
Reseñas
El May 12 2015, CloggieDownunder dijo:
“It was different for Nance. She wasn’t dependent on a man. In fact, she thought that might be part of the problem. She’d been running her own life for so long, she was used to shaping things as she wanted…….She was like those girls who learned to dance with other girls, taking turns to be the man. They never got the hang of following, once they knew what it was like to lead.”
One Life is a biography of Nance Isobel Gee, written by her daughter, popular Australian author, Kate Grenville. Nance was born in 1912. Against the odds for a woman of her humble background, Nance attended Sydney University, became a registered pharmacist and owned her own pharmacy. But this simplistic summation of her life is completely inadequate, for Nance did much, much more with her life. As Grenville relates the incidents and events that punctuated Nance’s life, she takes the reader back to another era, one on the cusp of major change. Schooling, work, war, sexual discrimination, motherhood, political affiliations and even building a house feature in this interesting and entertaining memoir: “Why shouldn’t a woman lay bricks? The world would never change if someone wasn’t prepared to be the first.”
While this may be a memoir, Grenville still manages to treat the reader to some wonderfully evocative prose: “They woke to a day so hot and still the air was like something solid. All morning a cloud gathered on the horizon and by afternoon it filled the sky, dark with a dangerous green underbelly like a bruise. Then one great blast of wind, and the hail starting all at once, like someone spilling peas out of a colander” is just one example. Many of the images on the twenty-four pages of photographs will strike a chord with readers of a certain vintage, who may well have similar photographs of their own family.
Grenville explains: “Her story is unusual in some ways, but in other ways it’s the archetypal twentieth-century story of the coming of a new world of choices and self-determination” Those who knew her have described Nance Gee as a remarkable woman: this is a description which Grenville’s biography proves is certainly very apt. Once again, Grenville treats her readers to a brilliant read.
(¡Iniciar sesión or Crear una cuenta primero!)
Detalles
- Librería
- Great Southern Books (AU)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 8916
- Título
- One Life: My Mother's Story
- Autor
- Kate Grenville
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good Condition
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1922182052
- ISBN 13
- 9781922182050
- Editorial
- Text Publishing Company
- Lugar de publicación
- Melbourne
- Fecha de publicación
- 2015
- Palabras clave
- BZDB137 biography, nance 1912-2002, kate grenville, mother Biography & Autobiography; Australia; 20th century; EAN: 9781922182050 Kate Grenville One Life: My Mother's Story
Términos de venta
Great Southern Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
Sobre el vendedor
Great Southern Books
Miembro de Biblio desde 2012
King River, Western Australia
Sobre Great Southern Books
We are an independent online bookstore and have been in business since 2012.
Glosario
Algunos términos que podrían usarse en esta descripción incluyen:
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...