Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage
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| Rating | : | 4.21 (551 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06XFZ3PHV |
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| Number of Pages | : | 234 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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Hourglass is an inquiry into how marriage is transformed by time - abraded, strengthened, shaped in miraculous and sometimes terrifying ways by accident and experience. Artful, intensely emotional work from one of our finest writers.. What are the forces that shape our most elemental bonds? How do we make lifelong commitments in the face of identities that are continuously shifting and commit ourselves for all time when the self is so often in flux? What happens to love in the face of the unexpected, in the face of disappointment and compromise - how do we wrest beauty from imperfection, find grace in the ordinary, desire what we have rather than what we lack? Drawing on literature, poetry, philosophy, and theology, Shapiro writes gloriously of the joys and challenges of matrimonial life in a luminous narrative that unfurls with urgent immediacy and sharp intelligence. With courage and relentless honesty, Dani Shapiro opens the door to her house, her marriage, and her heart and invites us to witness her own marital reckoning - a reckoning in which she confronts both the life she dreamed of and the life she made and struggles to reconcile the girl she was with the woman she has become. The best-selling novelist and memoirist delivers her most i
Katherine Devine said Favorite Book of "Favorite Book of 2017" according to Katherine Devine. "Change even one moment, the whole thing unravels. The narrative thread doesn’t stretch in a line from end to end, but rather, spools and unspools, loops around and returns again and again to the same spot. There is no other life than this. You would not have stumbled into the vastly imperfect, beautiful, impossible present."Never before have I finished a book, then immediately returned to page one to read it through againand still looked forward to the third read. 017. "Change even one moment, the whole thing unravels. The narrative thread doesn’t stretch in a line from end to end, but rather, spools and unspools, loops around and returns again and again to the same spot. There is no other life than this. You would not have stumbled into the vastly imperfect, beautiful, impossible present."Never before have I finished a book, then immediately returned to page one to read it through againand still looked forward to the third read. lisali said The author weaves back and forth in time effortlessly,. The author weaves back and forth in time effortlessly, interspersing quotes from other authors all while being present in her story. This book is a gem.. Interior view of a marriage SandiS I love Dani Shapiro's writing, and when this book came out it rose to the top of my pile of "to reads" and I wasn't disappointed. Everything looks different from the inside, and a marriage is one thing we rarely see through that lens. At times poignant and sweet, others cast with an essential sadness. I would give it 5 starssince I didn't put it down.I read it through to the end, but around page 127 it became a bit self indulgent and she lost me. Honestly, I'm not even