The Obituary Writer
Ann Hood,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Ann Hood,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780393346770 (0393346773)
Publish date: October 7th 2013
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
When I read an obituary, I am expecting it to contain certain information. When Vivien writes an obituary, she isn’t concerned about dates and events, she wants to capture the whole individual. Vivien sets the stage for the survivors in her home, serving them comforting beverages and snacks as they ...
Ann Hood's novel of two women from different era's each tells a story of life from their perspective. As Vivien and Claire's stories unfolds they eventually convene together in a way that displays women of their time in history. Vivien is the obituary writer and lives in Napa in 1919. A survivor o...
This is a story of hope. We begin with Claire, a wife and mother who does her best to be everything she was brought up to be. While she goes through the motions of her life -caring for her daughter and her husband, maintaining a clean and comfortable home, being the perfect social hostess – she feel...
Despite moral objections from her friends, Vivien Lowe is blissfully happy living in her new San Francisco home with her (married) lover, David. When the great earthquake hits in 1906 many lives are lost. Vivien manages to survive, but does not know what happened to David. Encouraged by her best ...
This was a good read, and it has inspired me to read poetry again. I felt like the stories didn't really go together though, and I would have liked each one as their own book,
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