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Name All the Animals: A Memoir by Smith, Alison
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- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- Binding
- Paperback
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- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
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- ISBN
- 9780743255233
- Book Title
- Name All the Animals : a Memoir
- Item Length
- 8.4 in
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Genre
- Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography
- Topic
- Women, Death, Grief, Bereavement, Personal Memoirs, Literary
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Item Weight
- 11.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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The critically acclaimed, heartbreaking memoir that is at once a gorgeous, profound, and redemptive story of a family holding desperately to the memory of a lost child; and a touching, intelligent, and inspiring coming-out story. A luminous, true story, Name All the Animals is an unparalleled account of grief and secret love: the tale of a family clinging to the memory of a lost child, and of a young woman struggling to define herself in the wake of his loss. As children, siblings Alison and Roy Smith were so close that their mother called them by one name, Alroy. But when Alison was fifteen, she woke one day to learn that Roy, eighteen, was dead. Heartbreaking but hopeful, this extraordinary memoir explores the aftermath of Roy's death: his parents' enduring romance, the faith of a deeply religious community, and the excitement and anguish of Alison's first love--a taboo relationship that opens up a world beyond the death of her brother.
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Publisher
Scribner
ISBN-10
0743255232
ISBN-13
9780743255233
eBay Product ID (ePID)
43106470
Product Key Features
Book Title
Name All the Animals : a Memoir
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Women, Death, Grief, Bereavement, Personal Memoirs, Literary
Publication Year
2005
Genre
Family & Relationships, Biography & Autobiography
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Item Weight
11.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Bf575.G7 S58 2004
Reviews
Judy Blunt author of Breaking Clean I am speechless with admiration. Name All the Animals demands a "must-read" list of its own. I find it hard to imagine the reader who would end Smith's book and not have tucked away a deeper, more profound understanding of how we survive this human condition of faith and grief, of love and life., "Smith writes with such assured distance that this quiet examination of grief reads more like biography than autobiography, and displays a novelist's gift for revealing character." -- Newsweek, "Makes time stand still and your coffee go cold beside you." -- Elissa Schappell, The New York Times Book Review, "Sometimes a friend will ask you about a book you've read and everything you say winds up sounding inadequate. Name All the Animals is that kind of book....This is the story of my life, too, told so I finally understand it. Which, in the memoir department, means that it is pretty perfect."-- Anna Quindlen, Book-of-the-Month Club judge, writing in BOMC News, David Schickler author of Kissing in Manhattan The grief in this memoir is the size of Goliath....Ms. Smith, with scrappy, unsentimental grace, battles her giant and wins our spectator hearts. Her brother, her schooldays, her prose, her candor -- all are lean and vital. Alison Smith is a cool warrior of a writer, but she makes us want to hug her and her story with every possible human warmth., "Alison Smith has written a beautiful, completely unsentimental memoir so full of love and sorrow and the stuff of everyday that you live in it as much as read it."-- Anna Quindlen, "Sometimes a friend will ask you about a book you've read and everything you say winds up sounding inadequate. Name All the Animals is that kind of book....This is the story of my life, too, told so I finally understand it. Which, in the memoir department, means that it is pretty perfect."-- Anna Quindlen, Book-of-the-Month Club judge, writing inBOMC News, Laura Shaine Cunningham author of Sleeping Arrangements and A Place in the Country In refusing to lose her brother, Roy, Smith gives us a memoir devoted to what truly matters. It has been a long time since I have read an account of a daughter, son, mother, and father who love one another, free of resentments and pettiness. Name All the Animals is a memoir that celebrates a lost life and escorts us past sorrow into the drama of a love story., Haven Kimmel author of A Girl Named Zippy and Something Rising (Light and Swift) Tender, sad, and without a trace of self-pity, Name All the Animals is a beautiful memoir. I'll never forget it., "Smith writes with such assured distance that this quiet examination of grief reads more like biography than autobiography, and displays a novelist's gift for revealing character."--Newsweek, "Sometimes a friend will ask you about a book you've read and everything you say winds up sounding inadequate. Name All the Animals is that kind of book....This is the story of my life, too, told so I finally understand it. Which, in the memoir department, means that it is pretty perfect." -- Anna Quindlen, Book-of-the-Month Club judge, writing in BOMC News, "Alison Smith has written a beautiful, completely unsentimental memoir so full of love and sorrow and the stuff of everyday that you live in it as much as read it." -- Anna Quindlen, "Makes time stand still and your coffee go cold beside you."-- Elissa Schappell,The New York Times Book Review, Laura Moriarty author of The Center of Everything To read Name All the Animals is to witness a fierce battle between a teenager's despair and her almost subconscious will to survive and find joy. In poetic but understated prose, Smith carries the reader through her grief without ever resorting to fairy tales or half-truths; her refusal of easy comforts is what gives this memoir so much weight and beauty. I will recommend it to everyone I know., "Smith writes with such assured distance that this quiet examination of grief reads more like biography than autobiography, and displays a novelist's gift for revealing character."-- Newsweek
Copyright Date
2004
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2003-060432
Dewey Decimal
155.9/37/092 B
Dewey Edition
22
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