Love’s Long Line (21st Century Essays) - Tapa blanda

Libro 7 de 21: 21st Century Essays

Scott, Sophfronia

 
9780814254639: Love’s Long Line (21st Century Essays)
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ISBN 10: 0814254632 ISBN 13: 9780814254639
Editorial: Mad Creek Books, 2018

Sinopsis



Sophfronia Scott turns an unflinching eye on her life to deliver a poignant collection of essays ruminating on faith, motherhood, race, and the search for meaningful connection in an increasingly disconnected world.
In Love’s Long Line, Scott contemplates what her son taught her about grief after the shootings at his school, Sandy Hook Elementary; how a walk with Lena Horne became a remembrance of love for Scott’s illiterate and difficult steelworker father; the unexpected heartache of being a substitute school bus driver; and the satisfying fantasy of paying off a mortgage. Scott’s road is also a spiritual journey ignited by an exploration of her first name, the wonder of her physical being, and coming to understand why her soul must dance like Saturday Night Fever’s Tony Manero.

Inspired by Annie Dillard’s observation in Holy the Firm that we all “reel out love’s long line alone . . . like a live wire loosed in space to longing and grief everlasting,” Scott’s essays acknowledge the loneliness, longing, and grief exacted by a fearless engagement with the everyday world. But she shows that by holding the line, there is an abundance of joy and forgiveness and grace to be had as well.

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Sophfronia Scott is a novelist and former writer for Time and People. She is the author of four books of fiction and nonfiction, including Unforgivable Love and All I Need to Get By. 
 

 

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Editorial
Mad Creek Books
Año de publicación
2018
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ISBN 10 
0814254632
ISBN 13 
9780814254639
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Número de páginas
230
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