Hourglass : time, memory, marriage

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The work Hourglass : time, memory, marriage represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Stevens Memorial Library (North Andover). This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Hourglass : time, memory, marriage

Title remainder

time, memory, marriage

Statement of responsibility

Dani Shapiro

Creator

• Shapiro, Dani

Author

• Shapiro, Dani

Subject

• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Women
• Biography
• Jewish women
• Jewish women -- United States -- Biography
• Marriage
• Marriage -- Social aspects
• Marriage -- Social aspects
• 1900-1999
• Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography
• Shapiro, Dani
• Shapiro, Dani -- Marriage
• United States
• Women novelists, American
• Women novelists, American -- Biography
• Novelists, American
• Autobiographies

Genre

• Biography
• Autobiographies

Language

eng

Summary

"The best-selling novelist and memoirist delivers her most intimate and powerful work: a piercing, life-affirming memoir about marriage and memory, about the frailty and elasticity of our most essential bonds, and about the accretion, over time, of both sorrow and love. Hourglass is an inquiry into how marriage is transformed by time--abraded, strengthened, shaped in miraculous and sometimes terrifying ways by accident and experience. With courage and relentless honesty, Dani Shapiro opens the door to her house, her marriage, and her heart, and invites us to witness her own marital reckoning--a reckoning in which she confronts both the life she dreamed of and the life she made, and struggles to reconcile the girl she was with the woman she has become. What are the forces that shape our most elemental bonds? How do we make lifelong commitments in the face of identities that are continuously shifting, and commit ourselves for all time when the self is so often in flux? What happens to love in the face of the unexpected, in the face of disappointment and compromise--how do we wrest beauty from imperfection, find grace in the ordinary, desire what we have rather than what we lack? Drawing on literature, poetry, philosophy, and theology, Shapiro writes gloriously of the joys and challenges of matrimonial life, in a luminous narrative that unfurls with urgent immediacy and sharp intelligence. Artful, intensely emotional work from one of our finest writers"--

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Provided by publisher

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.54

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3569.H3387

LC item number

Z46 2017

Literary form

non fiction