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Genre/Form: | Biography Biographies |
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Named Person: | Alice Steinbach; Alice Steinbach |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Alice Steinbach |
ISBN: | 0963124625 9780963124623 |
OCLC Number: | 35710676 |
Description: | 307 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | The Miss Dennis School of Writing -- Women and Men. An Old Flame. Fathers. He Said, She Said. My Funny Valentine. Crossing the Gender Gap. Romance. Women and Confusion. All About Eve -- A Matter of Appearance. Youth and Beauty. Fashion: Sense and Non-Sense. Charm School. Losing It. Hair Problems. Fashion: More Sense and Non-Sense -- Raising Children. Mother's Day. Thanksgiving at the Holiday Inn. Philosophers. The World on a String. Lost and Found. Letters from Camp. Land of Adolescence. Parents are Forever -- The Solo Life. To Wait or Not to Wait. To Share or Not to Share. At the Beauty Spa. One of Us. In the Garden. Unpacking a Life -- The Working Life. Having It All. The Opera Singer. Rejection. Success and Failure. Second Acts. Still Betty After All These Years. On Assignment -- Growing Up. Counter Culture. Camp Baltimore. Sibling Rivalry. Christmas. Prom Night. Piano Lessons. Girls to Women. The Mocking Birds -- Daily Pleasures. One Moment in Time. Camelot. Mail Chauvinist. News of the World. Friends and Recipes -- Daily Afflictions. Deconstructive Criticism. Worrying. Cats. Now and Then. Canceled Checks. Perfectionists. A Pain in the Back. Martha Stewart and Me -- Role Models. Lessons from a Wise Fox. Well, Here We Are. The Real Me. Taught by Children. Two Unusual People. 17 Years, 11 Months, and 13 Days. Pioneer Women. Anne Frank -- A Sense of Place. Home. Familiar Strangers. Fifth Grade. My Neighborhood. Beyond Words. The Geography of Hope -- As Time Goes By. September Song. Stars. Spending Time. Scents and Sensibility. Signs of Life. The Middle Ages. Before Air Conditioning. Better-Late-Than-Never Mail -- Departures. The Girl Who Loved Cats and Flowers. Homer: A Dog's Odyssey. Elegy for Max. Empty Nest. Remembering E.B. White. The Girl Who Loved the Wind. |
Responsibility: | Alice Steinbach. |
Abstract:
"An intimate, personal collection of essays, remembrances, and columns that ... [recount] the experiences and observations of a divorced, working mother."--Jacket.
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