| Embalming Mom: Essays in Life Contributor(s): Burroway, Janet (Author) |
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ISBN: 087745907X ISBN-13: 9780877459071 Publisher: University of Iowa Press OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2004 Annotation: In sixteen essays of wit, rage, and reconciliation, Embalming Mom chronicles loss and renaissance in a life that reaches from Florida to Arizona across to England and home again. Burroway brilliantly weaves her way through the dangers of daily life--divorcing her first husband, raising two boys, establishing a new life, scattering her mother's ashes, and sorting the meager possessions of her father. Each new danger and challenge highlights the tenacious will of the body and spirit to heal. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Biography & Autobiography | Women - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2001046307 |
| Series: Sightline Books: The Iowa Series in Literary Nonfiction (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.45" H x 5.36" W x 8.98" (0.45 lbs) 152 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In sixteen essays of wit, rage, and reconciliation, Embalming Mom chronicles loss and renaissance in a life that reaches from Florida to Arizona across to England and home again. Burroway brilliantly weaves her way through the dangers of daily life - divorcing her first husband, raising two boys, establishing a new life, scattering her mother's ashes, and sorting the meager possessions of her father. Each new danger and challenge highlights the tenacious will of the body and spirit to heal. |