When Beth Kephart met and fell in love with the artist who would become her husband, she had little knowledge of the place he came from-an exotic coffee farm high in the jungle hills of El Salvador, a place of terrifying myths and even more frightening realities, of civil war and devastating earthquakes. Yet, marriage, she finds, means taking in not only the stranger who is one's lover but also a stranger's history-in this case, a country, language, people, and culture utterly foreign to a young American woman. Kephart's transcendently lyrical prose (often compared to the work of Annie Dillard) has already made her a National Book Award finalist. In each of her memoirs she has written about love, using her own life to seek out universal truths.
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"With richly evocative prose than can only be called masterful, Beth Kephart illuminates here the questions we somehow keep forgetting to ask: how is it possible to fully love our mate without knowing and loving, too, where he or she was engendered? Still Love in Strange Places is a revelation and a feast!" -- Andre Dubus III, author of House of Sand and Fog
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Für Beruf und Forschung
Für höhere Schule und Studium
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Höhe: 210 mm
Breite: 140 mm
Dicke: 14 mm
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978-0-393-32447-1 (9780393324471)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Beth Kephart is the award-winning author of a memoir trilogy. She has written about writing and the imagination for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, and Parenting. She lives in Devon, Pennsylvania.
