To the boathouse
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Mary Ann Caws.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
Subjects: Caws, Mary Ann.; Caws, Mary Ann -- Childhood and youth.; Caws, Mary Ann -- Homes and haunts -- North Carolina.; English teachers -- United States -- Biography.; French teachers -- United States -- Biography.; Critics -- United States -- Biography.; North Carolina -- Social life and customs.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "The Southern landscape forms a lush backdrop in this memoir by Mary Ann Caws in which she recounts a life of passionate engagement. She sketches her early years in North Carolina, where she makes her debut and begins to struggle with accepted social values of the time and region. She recounts the tangled relationships of her family, and her ties to her sister, parents, and the grandmother - a painter - who served as her role model." "Caws describes her education at Bryn Mawr, in Paris, and at Yale - where she weds a professor of philosophy. She details the joys, small and large, of a complicated marriage that ends in divorce, after which she strives toward self-sufficiency and self-understanding. Finally, Caws related her deep passion for writing, teaching, art, and poetry; her friendships with the writers, artists, and intellectuals who provided sanctuary for her mind and heart; and the many light-filled summers spent with her children at their field house in Provence."--BOOK JACKET.