Etchings in an Hourglass: A Sequel to Bronx Primitive and a Wider World - Softcover

Simon, Kate

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060920807 ISBN 13: 9780060920807

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1991

Synopsis

The third volume of the author's memoirs relates the events of her later life--the deaths of her husband and daughter, love affairs, her bitter second marriage and divorce, and her travels

About this title

From Library Journal:

In the third volume of her memoirs (the first two are Bronx Primitive, LJ 5/1/82, and A Wider World, LJ 2/15/86), travel writer Simon recalls the joys and sorrows of her adult life. Her first husband, only child, and younger sister all died of cancer at early ages. Her second marriage was a sterile, joyless affair ending in divorce. Yet, what dominates this book is not sorrow, but the author's unquenchable zest for life, her curiosity, adventurous spirit, and trenchant observations on people and places. In Russia, there was the guide who suspected Simon was a spy; in Haiti, a voodoo ceremony; in Paris, wordless encounters with Sartre on the stairs. These are well-wrought portraits from a life well lived. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 4/1/90.
- Andrea Caron Kempf, Johnson Cty. Community Coll. Lib., Overland Park, Kan.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0060920807
• ISBN 13: 9780060920807
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256