The florist's daughter /
"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 entrée to St. Paul society, and a distrustful Irishwoman with an uncanny ability to tell a tale, Hampl remained, primarily and p...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Bostan [Mass.] : Orlando :
Mariner Books ; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
2009, ©2007.
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| Edition: | 1st Mariner books ed. |
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| Summary: | "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 entrée to 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 effort that comes with that role -- from the postwar years past the turbulent sixties. At the heart of The florist's daughter 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."--Page 4 of cover. |
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| Item Description: | The Cushing Library Lit/Mitchell copy is a donation from J. Lawrence Mitchell. Accession #: 2020_0001 |
| Physical Description: | 227 pages ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780156034036 0156034034 |