| Dream Me Home Safely: Writers on Growing Up in America Contributor(s): Shreve, Susan Richards (Author) |
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ISBN: 0618379029 ISBN-13: 9780618379026 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $16.14 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2003 Annotation: In "Dream Me Home Safely," Alice Walker, Anna Quindlen, Lois Lowry, Nikki Giovanni and many more write on their own American childhoods with intensely intimate writing, through memories both diverse and powerful. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2003056794 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.70 lbs) 223 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the title essay of this extraordinary keepsake of childhood in America, John Edgar Wideman pays fierce tribute to a complex mother who used to dream me home safely by sitting up and waiting for me to stumble in. The young writer Bich Minh Nguyen remembers arriving in Michigan from Vietnam in 1975 and a classmate who said, Your house smells funny, and Michael Parker recalls a sister's vivid -- and hilarious -- act of defiance on a particular North Carolina evening in 1971. These and many more intensely intimate memories make Dream Me Home Safely a collection as diverse and powerful as all of American letters. |
Contributor Bio(s): Shreve, Susan Richards: - Susan Richards Shreve's published novels include A Student of Living Things and Warm Springs. She has worked as a Professor of English at George Mason University and was previously Co-Chair and President of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation. She has received several grants for fiction writing, including a Guggenheim fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts award. |