Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage
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| Rating | : | 4.20 (778 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06XFZ3PHV |
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| Number of Pages | : | 289 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Favorite Book of 2017 Katherine Devine "Change even one moment, the whole thing unravels. The narrative thread doesn’t stretch in a line from end to end, but rather, spools and unspools, loops around and returns again and again to the same spot. There is no other life than this. You would not have stumbled into the vastly imperfect, beautiful, impossible present."Never before have I finished a book, then immediately returned to page one to read it through againand still looked forward to the third read. This spare, exquisite memoir move. The author weaves back and forth in time effortlessly, The author weaves back and forth in time effortlessly, interspersing quotes from other authors all while being present in her story. This book is a gem.. Interior view of a marriage SandiS I love Dani Shapiro's writing, and when this book came out it rose to the top of my pile of "to reads" and I wasn't disappointed. Everything looks different from the inside, and a marriage is one thing we rarely see through that lens. At times poignant and sweet, others cast with an essential sadness. I would give it 5 starssince I didn't put it down.I read it through to the end, but around page 127 it became a bit self indulgent and she lost me. Honestly, I'm not even sure that particular drama was nece
With courage and relentless honesty, Dani Shapiro opens the door to her house, her marriage, and her heart and invites us to witness her own marital reckoning - a reckoning in which she confronts both the life she dreamed of and the life she made and struggles to reconcile the girl she was with the woman she has become. Hourglass is an inquiry into how marriage is transformed by time - abraded, strengthened, shaped in miraculous and sometimes terrifying ways by accident and experience. Artful, intensely emotional work from one of our finest writers.. The best-selling novelist and memoirist delivers her most intimate and powerful work: a piercing, life-affirming memoir about marriage and memory, about the frailty and elasticity of our most essential bonds, and about the accretion, over time, of both sorrow and love. What are the forces that shape our most elemental bonds? How do we make lifelo