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Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life

Abigail Thomas

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UPC:
9780385720557
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
2001-04-17
Release Date:
2001-04-17
Author:
Abigail Thomas
Language:
english
Edition:
Reprint
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A beautifully crafted and inviting account of one womans life, Safekeeping offers a sublimely different kind of autobiography. Setting aside a straightforward narrative in favor of brief passages of vivid prose, Abigail Thomas revisits the pivotal moments and the tiny incidents that have shaped her life: pregnancy at 18; single motherhood (of three!) by the age of 26; the joys and frustrations of three marriages; and the death of her second husband, who was her best friend. The stories made of these incidents are startling in their clarity and reassuring in their wisdom.

This is a book in which silence speaks as eloquently as what is revealed. Openhearted and effortlessly funny, these brilliantly selected glimpses of the arc of a life are, in an age of excessive confession and recrimination, a welcome tonic.