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Dream Me Home Safely - by Susan Richards Shreve (Paperback)

Name: Dream Me Home Safely - by Susan Richards Shreve (Paperback)
Brand: Harper Perennial
SKU: 1003344831
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Highlights

In the title essay of this extraordinary keepsake of childhood in America, John Edgar Wideman pays fierce tribute to a complex mother who "used to dream me home safely by sitting up and waiting for me to stumble in.
Author(s): Susan Richards Shreve
223 Pages
Literary Collections, Essays

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About the Book

In "Dream Me Home Safely," Alice Walker, Anna Quindlen, Lois Lowry, Nikki Giovanni and many more write on their own American childhoods with intensely intimate writing, through memories both diverse and powerful.

Book Synopsis

In the title essay of this extraordinary keepsake of childhood in America, John Edgar Wideman pays fierce tribute to a complex mother who "used to dream me home safely by sitting up and waiting for me to stumble in." The young writer Bich Minh Nguyen remembers arriving in Michigan from Vietnam in 1975 and a classmate who said, "Your house smells funny," and Michael Parker recalls a sister's vivid -- and hilarious -- act of defiance on a particular North Carolina evening in 1971. These and many more intensely intimate memories make Dream Me Home Safely a collection as diverse and powerful as all of American letters.

Review Quotes

"This collection constitutes a memorable portrait of coming-of-age in America." Booklist, ALA --

Dimensions (Overall): 8.5 Inches (H) x 5.5 Inches (W) x .6 Inches (D)

Weight: .7 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 223

Genre: Literary Collections

Sub-Genre: Essays

Publisher: Harper Perennial

Format: Paperback

Author: Susan Richards Shreve

Language: English

Street Date: October 22, 2003

TCIN: 1003344831

UPC: 9780618379026

Item Number (DPCI): 247-08-7714

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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Estimated ship dimensions: 0.6 inches length x 5.5 inches width x 8.5 inches height

Estimated ship weight: 0.7 pounds

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