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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Publication date
June 12, 2014
Pages
307
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781594631818
ISBN-10
1594631816
Dimensions
1.25 by 6 by 9 in.
Availability§
Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price
$27.95
Subjects
§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: A wryly comic memoir that examines the pillars of New England WASP cultureâclass, history, family, money, envy, perfection, and, of course, real estateâthrough the lens of mothers and daughters.
At eighteen, Sarah Payne Stuart fled her mother and all the other disapproving mothers of her too perfect hometown of Concord, Massachusetts, only to return years later when she had children of her own. Whether to defy the previous generation or finally earn their approval and enter their ranks, she hurled herself into upper-crust domesticity full throttle. In the twenty years Stuart spent back in her hometownâin a series of ever more magnificent houses in ever grander neighborhoodsâshe was
forced to connect with the cultural tradition of guilt and flawed parenting of a long legacy of local, literary women from Emersonâs wife, to Hawthorneâs, to the most famous and imposing of them all, Louisa May Alcottâs iconic, guilt-tripping Marmee.
When Stuartâs own mother dies, she realizes that there is no one left to approve or disapprove. And so, with her suddenly grown children fleeing as she herself once did, Stuart leaves her hometown for the final time, bidding good-bye to the cozy ideals invented for her by Louisa May Alcott so many years ago, which may or may not ever have been based in reality.
At eighteen, Sarah Payne Stuart fled her mother and all the other disapproving mothers of her too perfect hometown of Concord, Massachusetts, only to return years later when she had children of her own. Whether to defy the previous generation or finally earn their approval and enter their ranks, she hurled herself into upper-crust domesticity full throttle. In the twenty years Stuart spent back in her hometownâin a series of ever more magnificent houses in ever grander neighborhoodsâshe was
forced to connect with the cultural tradition of guilt and flawed parenting of a long legacy of local, literary women from Emersonâs wife, to Hawthorneâs, to the most famous and imposing of them all, Louisa May Alcottâs iconic, guilt-tripping Marmee.
When Stuartâs own mother dies, she realizes that there is no one left to approve or disapprove. And so, with her suddenly grown children fleeing as she herself once did, Stuart leaves her hometown for the final time, bidding good-bye to the cozy ideals invented for her by Louisa May Alcott so many years ago, which may or may not ever have been based in reality.
Editions
Hardcover
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from Riverhead Books (June 12, 2014)
9781594631818 | details & prices | 307 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 1.25 in. | 0.95 lbs | List price $27.95
About: A wryly comic memoir that examines the pillars of New England WASP cultureâclass, history, family, money, envy, perfection, and, of course, real estateâthrough the lens of mothers and daughters.
About: A wryly comic memoir that examines the pillars of New England WASP cultureâclass, history, family, money, envy, perfection, and, of course, real estateâthrough the lens of mothers and daughters.
Paperback
Reprint edition from Riverhead Books (June 2, 2015)
9781594633904 | details & prices | 307 pages | 5.50 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.56 lbs | List price $16.00
About: A wryly comic memoir that examines the pillars of New England WASP cultureâclass, history, family, money, envy, perfection, and, of course, real estateâthrough the lens of mothers and daughters.
About: A wryly comic memoir that examines the pillars of New England WASP cultureâclass, history, family, money, envy, perfection, and, of course, real estateâthrough the lens of mothers and daughters.
With Dale A. Whitman, Grant S. Nelson |
2 edition from West Group (January 1, 1989); titled "Real Estate Finance Law, 1989/Pocket Part"
9780314500823 | details & prices | List price $11.40
This edition also contains Real Estate Finance Law, 1989/Pocket Part
This edition also contains Real Estate Finance Law, 1989/Pocket Part
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