Study in perfect
Subtitle: essays
By: by Sarah Gorham
Contributors: Association of Writers & Writing Programs
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780820347127
Subjects: American essays
Description: Essays and musings considering the elusive and evocative idea of perfection that traverse topics that are at once ordinary and elemental: the house she and her husband once thought was "perfect," being a mother and being a daughter, alcoholism, middle age.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-208).

Winner of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction
Table of contents: title: Moving horizontal; title: Perfect word; title: Darling amanita; title: Perfect flower; title: The changeling; title: On lying; title: Perfect water; title: Marking time in door county; title: Perfect solution; title: A drinker's guide to the cat in the hat; title: Perfect tea; title: Sentimental ala carte; title: Perfect conversation; title: The shape of fear; title: Perfect sleep; title: On selfishness; title: Be there no human here; title: Perfect barn; title: Woman drawn twice; title: Perfect heaven; title: Neriage, or what is the secret of a long marriage?; title: Perfect ending.