Ann Hood
Auteur de The Knitting Circle
A propos de l'auteur
Ann Hood was born on December 9, 1956, in West Warwick, R.I. She attended the University of Rhode Island and New York University. For several years, she worked as a flight attendant before pursuing her dream of becoming a writer. Ann Hood had a dream of writing ever since her first "novel" at the afficher plus age of 11. It was not until 1987, with the publication of Somewhere off the Coast of Maine that she received the recognition she had been longing for. Set in the period from the 1960s to the 1980s, the story deals with the lives of three women of the Vietnam era and their children. Strong on emotion and personal growth, Hood's writing frequently examines the intricacies of various levels of relationships. Other works include Something Blue, which also involves the association between three friends. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Séries
Œuvres de Ann Hood
L'amante perduto 1 exemplaire
Strikkesirkelen 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop (2012) — Contributeur — 558 exemplaires
The Friend Who Got Away: Twenty Women's True Life Tales of Friendships that Blew Up, Burned Out or Faded Away (2005) — Contributeur — 203 exemplaires
What My Mother Gave Me: Thirty-one Women on the Gifts That Mattered Most (2013) — Contributeur — 95 exemplaires
Choice: True Stories of Birth, Contraception, Infertility, Adoption, Single Parenthood, and Abortion (2007) — Contributeur — 93 exemplaires
The Artists' and Writers' Cookbook: A Collection of Stories with Recipes (2016) — Contributeur — 18 exemplaires
Wanting a Child: Twenty-Two Writers on Their Difficult but Mostly Successful Quests for Parenthood in a High-Tech Age (1998) — Contributeur — 17 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 20th century
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- West Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- West Warwick, Rhode Island, USA
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
New York City, New York, USA - Études
- University of Rhode Island
- Professions
- flight attendant
- Relations
- Ruhlman, Michael (husband)
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Critiques
Fly Girl: A Memoir par Ann Hood
I first heard about this book through BookPage. Ann Hood writes about her time as a flight attendant for TWA (and a little about her transition to writing). It's quite an interesting journey. Along the way she shares a few humorous stories (and a few that are not so humorous) and some of the interesting places she visited in her travels.
Enzo has a difficult choice to make when he meets a young woman while in the trenches during the war in the countryside of France. She leaves her new born baby in his care. The choice he does make haunts him his entire life and he tries to make amends by going back to see if her can find out what happened to the baby. Great read. Loved this book.
Between 3 and 4 stars. I enjoyed the basic plot about a recently divorced woman trying to get used to her new life and make new friends by joining a book club. I enjoyed the parts from her daughters POV. What I did not enjoy was the actual book club. I thought the literary discussion seemed forced and took away from the flow of the novel.
I thought some characters felt real like Ava and Maggie but many others seem oddly stiff and formal. I also have mixed feelings about the ending. I liked the concept of it but I find the actual behavior of the people at the very end extremely strange.… (plus d'informations)
I thought some characters felt real like Ava and Maggie but many others seem oddly stiff and formal. I also have mixed feelings about the ending. I liked the concept of it but I find the actual behavior of the people at the very end extremely strange.… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 41
- Aussi par
- 16
- Membres
- 5,147
- Popularité
- #4,838
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 291
- ISBN
- 235
- Langues
- 8
- Favoris
- 5
