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| "THE FLORIST'S DAUGHTER... restores our sense of
purpose. It also yields some of the most glorious sentences and
narrative framing you will find anywhere." -- Chicago Tribune
-- 10/27/07 |
| "The result is rather like a significantly kinder,
gentler version of that other nouveau-Midwest classic: Jonathan
Franzen's ‘The Corrections." -- Christian Science Monitor --
10/16/07 |
| "... " -- Christian Science
Monitor – 10/16/07 |
| "…faultlessly evoked... both tender and clear eyed...
Hampl invites our re-evaluation of experience that relies on
something subtler than scope." -- The Plain Dealer -- 10/14/07 |
| "...a quietly stunning narrative..." -- People
-- 10/08/07 |
| "The Florist’s Daughter is Hampl’s finest, most
powerful book yet... [Hampl's] most intense, brilliant book... a
wonder of a memoir..." -- The New York Times Sunday Book
Review -- 10/07/07 |
| "...beautiful bouquet of a book..." --
Entertainment Weekly -- 10/05/07 |
| "Patricia Hampl is the queen of memoir... ...Do the
pieces Hampl gives us fit together to form a whole person? Yes! When
will it end? Hopefully, never." -- Los Angeles Timos --
10/02/07 |
| "If anyone can restore the memoir to glory, it's
Patricia Hampl…Read Hampl, and you'll forget about Frey." --
Chicago Tribune -- 09/30/07 |
| "Hampl is that rare writer who
refuses to sentimentalize even those she loves most…The tensions in
this novelistic masterpiece gather stitch by stitch, one ordinary
but riveting anecdote after another, interwoven with dry comedy."
-- Newsday -- 09/30/07 |
| "This St. Paul daughter's tale, from the master of
the memoir form, is told with breathtaking intensity, high lyricism
and cool blue irony." -- Star Tribune -- 09/28/07 |
| "...enchanting prose and transcendent vision... a
purveyor of beauty..." -- Publishers Weekly Starred review –
07/09/07 |
| "A memoir for memoirists to admire—with language that
pierces..." -- Kirkus Starred Review -- 07/01/07 |
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