Families

ISBN-13: 9781138523371 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 254 str.

Jane Howard

Opis

Howard visits many families and tries to discover what makes the best ones work so well. She finds the family in one guise or another remains everybody's most basic hold on reality. She reports on visits to conventional households and to innovative ones whose members, lacking a common history, plan on building common futures.

Spis treści

Winnowed Anthems, The Veterinarian’s Cousin, Bean Soup, Green and Black Rocks, " He’s Been Eating Pork Since He Was Qualified to Eat*, " He’ll Visit Maxine’s Leg Off", "I’m Afraid He’ll Squeeze His Brains*, Miss Hogan Phoned, Hurry Back, A Question of Scale, Just Think: Nine Years, Supermarket Checkout Clerk of the Year, Shark M eat, Peacock Feathers and Soybeans, On the Slaunch, A Peck of Salt

O autorze

Jane Howard is the author of A Different Woman, Please Touch: A Guided Tour of the Human Potential Movement, and Margaret Mead: A Life.