Family
Subtitle: American Writers Remember Their Own
Publisher: Pantheon; Pantheon Books
Published: November 5, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780679442479
Subjects: Literature - Classics / Criticism; Family relationships; 20th Century American Literature; Essays; Biography/Autobiography; Literary Collections; United States; 20th century; Family & Relationships / Family Relationships; American authors; Authors, American; Family
Description: Meet the eccentric, eclectic family members of seventeen of America's finest writers in this dazzling, deeply moving collection of memoirs.

Take advice from Alice Hoffman's wise grandmother, Lillie Lulkin. Keep watch over lone children with Brent Staples. Share with Bob Shacochis and his wife the heartbreaking sadness of two people longing to have a child.

You can also listen in as Chang-rae Lee and his mother speak their own language; carefully contemplate life through the eyes of Whitney Otto's beloved, irascible cat; discover if Marion Winik is really, truly related to either Charlie Chaplin or Jann Wenner; and bar-hop with a five-year-old Stuart Dybek and his Polish grandfather.

In joining this literary reunion, be prepared to discover your own sense of family history. Whether considering relations by blood, by marriage, by choice, or by chance, each writer here has something to share: skeletons, desires, sorrows, and joys. And in this Family, you will find that the pleasure of reading is much more than relative.