Maria Flook
Auteur de Invisible Eden: A Story of Love and Murder on Cape Cod
A propos de l'auteur
Maria Flook teaches at Emerson College in Boston.
Œuvres de Maria Flook
Oeuvres associées
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales (1998) — Contributeur — 298 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1952
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Études
- University of Iowa
- Organisations
- Emerson College
Membres
Critiques
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 11
- Aussi par
- 3
- Membres
- 311
- Popularité
- #75,820
- Évaluation
- 3.4
- Critiques
- 7
- ISBN
- 28
A longtime affair with an editor provides a recurring thread to hold the story together. Meanwhile short chapters are threaded like beads, each forming its own enticing essay on topics as varied as Gauguin’s “falsehood of truth” or the unyielding reality of a son’s cancer diagnosis. Cool analogies, absorbing metaphors, and a wealth of literary name-dropping and quotes, all surround nuggets of wisdom for writers, advice for success-seekers, and incautious glimpses through the closed bedroom doors of motels, hotels and homes.
In the end, the woman who stands first, whose person comes first, and whose femininity is so fiercely prominent, reveals herself as a mother who cares and a woman whose honest relationships matter more than the lies she’s contrived, the grafts of childhood finally laid to rest in the host of motherhood.
Disclosure: I was given a preview edition by the publisher and I offer my honest review.… (plus d'informations)