The Florist's Daughter

Hampl, Patricia

ISBN 10: 0151012571 / ISBN 13: 9780151012572

Published by Harcourt, Orlando, Florida, 2006

About this Item

First edition, stated; first printing, full letter line (A-K). Signed by the author on the title page: "Patricia Hampl." The book is square and unmarked; top corners and spine ends bumped; a tan stain to the top inch of the page fore-edges. The dust jacket is not price-clipped (original price $24.00); a one-inch closed tear to the top of the front panel; a corner crease to the front flap; Brodart protected. Seller Inventory # 002984

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Florist's Daughter

Publisher: Harcourt, Orlando, Florida

Publication Date: 2006

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

During the long farewell of her mother's dying, Patricia Hampl revisits her Midwestern girlhood. Daughter of a debonair Czech father, whose floral work gave him entrŽe into St. Paul society, and a distrustful Irishwoman with an uncanny ability to tell a tale, Hampl remained, primarily and passionately, a daughter well into adulthood. She traces the arc of faithfulness and struggle that comes with that role from the postwar years past the turbulent sixties. The Florist's Daughter is a tribute to the ardor of supposedly ordinary people. Its concerns reach beyond a single life to achieve a historic testament to midcentury middle America. At the heart of this book is the humble passion of people who struggled out of the Depression into a better chance, not only for themselves but for the common good. Widely recognized as one of our most masterful memoirists, Patricia Hampl has written her most intimate, yet most universal, work to date.

About the Authors:

PATRICIA HAMPL is the author of four memoirs—A Romantic Education, Virgin Time, I Could Tell You Stories, and Blue Arabesque—and two collections of poetry. She has received a MacArthur Fellowship, among many other awards. She lives in St. Paul and is Regents Professor at the University of Minnesota.

PATRICIA HAMPL is the author of four memoirs—A Romantic Education, Virgin Time, I Could Tell You Stories, and Blue Arabesque—and two collections of poetry. She has received a MacArthur Fellowship, among many other awards. She lives in St. Paul and is Regents Professor at the University of Minnesota.