Mothers of Sparta

Mothers of Sparta
Author :
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages : 213
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781250133717
ISBN-13 : 1250133718
Rating : 4/5 (718 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Mothers of Sparta by : Dawn Davies

Download or read book Mothers of Sparta written by Dawn Davies and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Davies' collection of essays soars.... It's a memoir that locates the profound within the ordinary.” —Entertainment Weekly If you’re looking for a typical parenting book, this is not it. This is not a treatise on how to be a mother. This is a book about a young girl who moves to a new town every couple of years; a misfit teenager who finds solace in a local music scene; an adrift twenty-something who drops out of college to pursue her dream of making cheesecake on a stick a successful business franchise (ah, the ideals of youth). Alone in a new city, she summons her inner strength as she holds the hand of a dying stranger. Davies is a woman who finds humor in difficult pregnancies and post-partum depression (after reading “Pie” you might never eat Thanksgiving dessert the same way). She is a divorcee who unexpectedly finds second love. She is a happily married suburban wife who nevertheless makes a mental list of all the men she would have slept with. And she is a parent who finds herself tested in ways she could never imagine. In stories that cut to the quick, Davies explores passion, loss, illness, pain, and joy, told from her singular, gimlet-eyed, hilarious perspective. Mothers of Sparta is not a blow-by-blow of Davies’ life but rather an examination of the exquisite and often painful moments of a life, the moments we look back on and say, That one, that one mattered. Straddling the fence between humor and, well...not humor, Davies has written a book about what it’s like to try to carve a place for oneself in the world, no matter how unyielding the rock can be.


Mothers of Sparta Related Books

Mothers of Sparta
Language: en
Pages: 213
Authors: Dawn Davies
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-01-30 - Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

“Davies' collection of essays soars.... It's a memoir that locates the profound within the ordinary.” —Entertainment Weekly If you’re looking for a typi
Spartan Women
Language: en
Pages: 217
Authors: Sarah B. Pomeroy
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-07-11 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This is the first book-length examination of Spartan women, covering over a thousand years in the history of women from both the elite and lower classes. Classi
Pythagorean Women Philosophers
Language: en
Pages: 259
Authors: Dorota M. Dutsch
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-30 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Women played an important part in Pythagorean communities, so Greek sources from the Classical era to Byzantium consistently maintain. Pseudonymous philosophica
The Sample Case
Language: en
Pages: 884
Authors:
Categories: Labor unions
Type: BOOK - Published: 1923 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Daughters of Sparta
Language: en
Pages: 385
Authors: Claire Heywood
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-06-22 - Publisher: Penguin

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

For millennia, men have told the legend of the woman whose face launched a thousand ships—but now it's time to hear her side of the story. Daughters of Sparta