Embalming Mom
Essays in Life
Will be published approx. on 1. September 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
152 pages
978-0-87745-907-1 (ISBN)
Description
In sixteen essays of wit, rage, and reconciliation, Embalming Mom chronicles loss and renaissance in a life that reaches from Florida to Arizona across to England and home again. Burroway brilliantly weaves her way through the dangers of daily life - divorcing her first husband, raising two boys, establishing a new life, scattering her mother's ashes, and sorting the meager possessions of her father. Each new danger and challenge highlights the tenacious will of the body and spirit to heal.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Iowa
United States
Weight
200 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87745-907-1 (9780877459071)
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Janet Burroway is the author of plays, poetry, children's books, and seven novels, including The Buzzards, Raw Silk, Opening Nights, and Cutting Stone. Her most recent plays are Sweepstakes and Parts of Speech. She is also the author of Imaginative Writing: The Elements of Craft and the most widely used creative writing textbook in America, Writing Fiction, now in its sixth edition. She is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor Emerita of Florida State University in Tallahassee.