| Edition |
First American edition. |
| Description |
207 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Apologies all round -- Breeding -- The glass wall -- Dream-time -- Birth -- Milk -- Nine months -- Time -- Advice -- Being two -- Groundhog day -- Science -- Babies : a breeder's guide -- God -- Buggies -- Staring -- Home birth -- Wriggles -- Naming -- Burps -- Hands -- Girl / Boy -- Crying -- Evolution -- Authority -- Poo -- Smell -- Too much information -- Baby-talk -- The killing cup -- Kissing -- How to panic -- Romance -- The lip of the rug -- By the time you read this, it will be true -- Staring, Part 2 -- What's wrong with velcro? -- Unforgiven -- Fair -- Secure pregnancies -- Siblings -- Toys -- Dirt -- Other mothers, other fathers -- How to get trolleyed while breast-feeding -- Entertaining -- On giving birth to a genius -- Dreams -- Speech -- On being loved -- It's not about you, you know -- It's not about you, you know, Part 2 -- The moment -- Worry -- Forgetting -- What it does -- Oh, mortality -- Acknowledgements. |
| Summary |
Anne Enright is one of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation. The Gathering won the 2007 Man Booker Prize, and her follow-up novel, The Forgotten Waltz, garnered universal praise for her luminous language and deep insight into relationships. Now, in Making Babies, Enright offers a new kind of memoir: an unapologetic look at the very personal experience of becoming a mother. With a refreshing no-nonsense attitude, Enright opens up about the birth and first two years of her children?s lives. Enright was married for eighteen years before she and her husband Martin, a playwright, decided to have children. Already a confident, successful writer, Enright continued to work in her native Ireland after each of her two babies was born. While each baby slept, those first two years of life, Enright wrote, in dispatches, about the mess, the glory, and the raw shock of motherhood. Here, unfiltered and irreverent, are Enright?s keen reactions to the pains of pregnancy, the joys of breast milk, and the all-too-common pressures to be the ?perfect? parent. Supremely observant and endlessly quizzical, Enright is never saccharine, always witty, but also deeply loving. Already a bestseller in the UK, Making Babies brings Enright?s autobiographical writing to American readers for the first time. Tender and candid, it captures beautifully just what it?s like for a working woman to become a mother. The result is a moving chronicle of parenthood from one of the most distinctive and gifted authors writing today.-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Enright, Anne, 1962-
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Mothers -- Biography.
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Motherhood.
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Parenting.
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| ISBN |
9780393078282 hardcover $24.95 |
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0393078280 hardcover |
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