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Patricia Hampl
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One of our most masterful
memoirists has written her most personal,
yet most universal book to date. 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, she remained, primarily and
passionately, a daughter well into
adulthood. Hampl traces the arc of
faithfulness and struggle that comes with
that role – from the post-war years past the
turbulent...
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Just out of college,
Patricia Hampl was mesmerized by a Matisse
painting she saw in the Chicago Art
Institute: an aloof woman gazing at goldfish
in a bowl, a mysterious Moroccan screen
behind her. This woman seemed a welcome
secular version of the nuns of her girlhood,
free and untouchable, a poster girl for 20th
century...
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