Bibliograph

Landslide, true stories, Minna Zallman Proctor

Type

Label

Landslide, true stories, Minna Zallman Proctor

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Landslide

Medium

electronic resource eBook

Nature of contents

dictionaries

resource.references

Bklst 09/01/2017PW 05/29/2017Kirkus 07/15/2017

Responsibility statement

Minna Zallman Proctor

Sub title

true stories

Summary

"Minna Zallman Proctor's Landslide is a captivating collection of interconnected personal essays. These "true stories" explore the author's complicated relationship with her mother--who was diagnosed with cancer at age fifty-seven and died fifteen years later--and the ways in which their connection was long the "prime mover" of Proctor's life, the subtle force coursing beneath her adulthood. As such, these vibrant essays also narrate the trials and triumphs of Proctor's own life--shifting between America and Italy (and loving "being a foreigner, the constant sense of unfamiliarity that supplanted all of my expectations and disappointments"), her bumpy first marriage, the profound pleasure she takes in motherhood, and the confounding experience of trying to arrange a Jewish burial for her "Jewish, not quite Jewish" mother."--Amazon.com

Table Of Contents

Folie à deux -- Driftwood, off the record -- Distress abandon -- Lapsus -- Names have been changed -- On translation's inadequacies (in two languages) -- Author of her destiny -- On fate and facts -- A mystic at heart -- Stories I tell my children -- Landslide -- The fool -- The waiting earth

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