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Extra Innings: a memoir

Extra Innings: a memoir Hardcover - 1993

by Grumbach, Doris

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New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1993. Hardcover. 298p., very good first edition, first printing stated in cloth boards and unclipped dj. Sequel to the author's "Coming Into the End Zone" memoir which covers her 73rd year.
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  • Title Extra Innings: a memoir
  • Author Grumbach, Doris
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 298
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York
  • Date 1993
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 113091
  • ISBN 9780393035414 / 0393035417
  • Weight 1.12 lbs (0.51 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.89 x 1.33 in (21.59 x 14.96 x 3.38 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Maine - Social life and customs, Novelists, American - 20th century - Diaries
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 92042489
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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From the rear cover

Extra Innings continues the intense, sometimes funny, sometimes tart, and sometimes very moving account of a closely examined life begun by Doris Grumbach in her widely praised day book Coming into the End Zone. That earlier book chronicles the author's seventy-first year, a time of both struggle against and acceptance of the encroachments of old age. Extra Innings begins two years later, on the publication date of its predecessor, its author exposed to all the exquisitely mingled hopes and fears of sending a book into the world. In this case, though, each review offered Doris Grumbach not only an opinion of her book, but something of a mirror in which she could see herself as the world sees her - or her self-portrait. It proves a somewhat disorienting route to self-knowledge. And so begins another eventful year - crowded with the literary pleasures (and pains) of a life spent reading and writing; the natural beauties and social particulars of life in coastal Maine; the mingled joys and affronts of travel to New York, Washington, Mexico; and, always, the looming presence of illness and mortality, the author's own and her daughter's as well. Extra Innings is, finally, a book about the successful search for home, the end of a journey to the Cove in Sargentville, Maine, where the serene landscape to be viewed from Grumbach's study comes to match the inward landscape of memory and well-earned peace.

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  • Booklist, 10/01/1993, Page 245
  • Library Journal, 10/01/1993, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 09/13/1993, Page 0

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