Connecting
Subtitle: twenty prominent authors write about  relationships that shape our lives
By: edited by Lee Gutkind.
Contributors: Gutkind, Lee.
Series: Creative nonfiction reader; Creative nonfiction reader series.
Publisher: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships; American prose literature -- 20th century; Life change events -- United States; Friendship -- United States; Family -- United States; Autobiographies
Description: Offering readers insight and wisdom as it sparks their memories of remarkable people in their lives, Connecting chronicles the personal and familial relationships of some of America's best-loved authors.

Among the writers contributing to this compelling anthology are Joyce Carol Oates, who writes about the end of a friendship and the beginning of adulthood; Alice Hoffman, who reveals how her grandmother's legacy of advice is a testament to her immortality; and Alec Wilkinson, who explores a woman's coping with the murder of her husband.