Remembering the Bone House: An Erotics of Place and Space - Softcover

Mairs, Nancy

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9780060916442: Remembering the Bone House: An Erotics of Place and Space

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060916443 ISBN 13: 9780060916442

Publisher: Harpercollins, 1990

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The author recreates her girlhood, adolescence, and young adulthood as wife and mother, detailing her battles with depression, agoraphobia, and multiple sclerosis

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A mesmerizing, poetic recollection ... In the tradition of Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own ... the author has a gift for making very personal experiences resonate. --Los Angeles Times Book Review

"The book is about the ways in which the homes we occupy help shape our memories. Some of the passages are of hair-raising beauty ... This may well become a classic of its genre." --Booklist, starred review

"Nancy Mairs defies conventional autobiography as she defies conventional life.... We need to learn what she can tell us." --St. Louis Post Dispatch

"Because of her power as an essayist, readers will conclude along with Mairs that while she may live in other places, her 'bone house' is complete." --San Francisco Chronicle

"As brave and boldly candid as Plaintext ... A remarkable woman's clouded life, rich in themes both unique and broadly familiar, contemplated in deeply involving detail." --Kirkus, starred review

"To my knowledge, no woman, ever, has written with such frankness and so little selfpity. All women are in her debt." --Carolyn Kizer

"In this haunting, transformative memoir, Nancy Mairs' determination to be somebody ... is shot through with flashes of light.... She takes the deepest layer of personal experience and presents it as a gift, incandescent with meaning." --Sallie Bingham

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