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.
Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life
Abigail Thomas
$25.87 - $30.24
- 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