Everyday Matters

A Love Story

Nardi Reeder Campion (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

252 Seiten

2004
University Press of New England (Verlag)
978-1-58465-407-0 (ISBN)

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This is the story of a life that has spanned much of the twentieth century. Nardi Reeder Campion speaks for a generation that has traveled from the roaring twenties into the twenty-first century.

This is the story of a life that has spanned much of the twentieth century. It is the story of a long and happy marriage, of advances in women's rights, of forging a career as a writer (including the excitement of a big Hollywood film sale), of the sometimes bewildering pace of progress, and of raising a family in a rapidly changing world. With her wit, insightful storytelling, and keen ear for offbeat anecdotes, Nardi Reeder Campion speaks for a generation that has traveled from the roaring twenties into the twenty-first century. Campion's address to a reunion of her Wellesley College class of 1938 has earned her a niche in cyberspace. Endlessly circulated via e-mail and even featured in the Ann Landers column, it combines Campion's charm, wisdom, and self-deprecating humor. She has now written a memoir distinguished by those same qualities. Campion's memoir is, in part, the story of a long and loving marriage, one that lasted fifty-nine years and "survived four jobs, seven books, nine homes, and nineteen pets (not counting gerbils)."
Whether she is describing the joys of marriage to a fun-loving husband or the pain of her son's emotional breakdown, the (sometimes mixed) blessings of grandchildren or the difficult decision to move into a retirement home, Campion's deft mix of humor and candor yields an appealing and engaging narrative. Always seeking to discover what is worthwhile, she writes movingly about love and about death.

Nardi Reeder Campion is the author of seven books, including Bringing Up the Brass by Sergeant Marty Maher with Colonel Red Reeder (the basis for the major motion picture, The Long Gray Line) and Mother Ann Lee: Morning Star of the Shakers (reissued by UPNE in 1990). Her writing has been published in The New York Times (including ten Op-Ed pieces), the Boston Globe, Reader's Digest, the Chicago Tribune, the New Yorker, Yankee, and other publications. Since 1987, she has written a regular column, "Everyday Matters," for the Valley News (Lebanon, N.H.) - and she's still at it. She is eighty-seven years old.

Zusatzinfo	16 photographs
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-58465-407-4 / 1584654074
ISBN-13	978-1-58465-407-0 / 9781584654070
Zustand	Neuware