Houghton Mifflin. 2007. Hard cover. Very good in fine dust jacket.. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 240 p. Audience: General/trade. . No previous owner's name. Clean, tight pages. No bent corners. No remainder mark. has shelf wear dust on closed pages, particularly top .

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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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Bookseller: 2Vbooks (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: Alibris.0051521
Title: The Florist's Daughter
Author: Hampl, Patricia
Format/Binding: Hard cover
Book Condition: Used - Very good in fine dust jacket.
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0151012571
ISBN 13: 9780151012572
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Place of Publication: Orlando
Date Published: 2007
Keywords: Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 240 p. Audience: General/trade.

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