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Harcourt
October 2007
On Sale: October 1, 2007
240 pages
ISBN: 0151012571
EAN: 9780151012572
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Non-Fiction Memoir
During the long farewell of her mother’s dying, Patricia
Hampl revisits her Midwestern girlhood. Daughter of a
debonair Czech father, whose floral work gave him entrŽe
into St. Paul society, and a distrustful Irishwoman with an
uncanny ability to tell a tale, Hampl remained, primarily
and passionately, a daughter well into adulthood. She traces
the arc of faithfulness and struggle that comes with that
role from the postwar years past the turbulent sixties. The
Florist’s Daughter is a tribute to the ardor of supposedly
ordinary people. Its concerns reach beyond a single life to
achieve a historic testament to midcentury middle America.
At the heart of this book is the humble passion of people
who struggled out of the Depression into a better chance,
not only for themselves but for the common good. Widely
recognized as one of our most masterful memoirists, Patricia
Hampl has written her most intimate, yet most universal,
work to date.
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