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PeriodicalLarge Print Book
Author Patchett, Ann, author.

Title These precious days : essays / Ann Patchett.

Publication Info. New York : Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2021]
©2021

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 Bristol, Main Library - Large Print Materials  LP808.84 PATCHETT    DUE 06-28-24
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Main Level  LARGE PRINT 814.54 PATCHETT    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Large Print Materials  LARGE PRINT 808.84 PAT    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  LP 814.54 PAT    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  LP 808.84 PATCHETT    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Whiton Branch - Non Fiction  LP 808.84 PATCHETT    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  LP 813.54 PATCHETT    Check Shelf
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Adult Department  LP 814.54 PATCHETT    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Large Print Materials  LP 814.54 PATCHETT    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  LP 808.84 PAT    Check Shelf

Edition First Harper large print edition.
[Large print edition].
Description vi, 424 pages (large print) : portrait ; 23 cm
Physical Medium large print (16 point) rda
Contents Introduction: essays don't die -- Three fathers -- The first Thanksgiving -- The Paris tattoo -- My year of no shopping -- The worthless servant -- How to practice -- To the doghouse -- Eudora Welty, an introduction -- Flight plan -- How knitting saved my life. Twice. -- Tavia -- There are no children here -- A paper ticket is good for one year -- The moment nothing changed -- The nightstand -- A talk to the Association of Graduate School Deans in the Humanities -- Cover stories -- Reading Kate DiCamillo -- Sisters -- These precious days -- Two more things I want to say about my father -- What the American Academy of Arts and Letters taught me about death -- Epilogue: a day at the beach.
Summary In this collection of essays, Patchett turns her writer's eye on her own experiences and transforms the private into the universal, providing us all a way to look at our own worlds anew.
Subject Patchett, Ann.
Authors, American -- 20th century.
Patchett, Ann -- Books and reading.
Patchett, Ann -- Authorship.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Women authors, American -- Biography.
Large type books.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.
Patchett, Ann. (OCoLC)fst00293948
Authors, American. (OCoLC)fst00821764
Authorship. (OCoLC)fst00822442
Books and reading. (OCoLC)fst00836454
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) (OCoLC)fst00882393
Large type books. (OCoLC)fst00992678
Women authors, American. (OCoLC)fst01177210
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Large type books.
Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Essays. (OCoLC)fst01919922
Essays.
Essays.
Autobiographies.
ISBN 9780063118034 (large print) (paperback)
0063118033 (large print) (paperback)
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