Occasions of sin
Subtitle: a memoir
By: by Sandra Scofield.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Scofield, Sandra Jean, 1943- -- Homes and haunts -- Texas, West; Scofield, Sandra Jean, 1943- -- Childhood and youth; Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships; Novelists, American -- Homes and haunts -- Texas, West; Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography; Terminally ill parents -- Texas, West; Mothers and daughters -- Texas, West; Teenage girls -- Texas, West; Catholics -- Texas, West; Texas -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Texas, West -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: In 1959, when Sandra Scofield was fifteen, she came home to stay in West Texas after years in Catholic boarding schools. She believed her presence would inspire her invalid mother to live. What she found--a fractured family; a distracted, dying mother--nudged her into the tumult of late adolescence and the awakening of her sexuality. More than forty years later, Scofield looks back on her Catholic girlhood and the ways in which her relationship with her mother was grounded in their intertwined aspirations for holiness, achievement, and love. Writing on the brink of old age, she looks back ruefully but without bitterness, forgiving both her mother's frailty and her own.--From publisher description.