Fathers and Daughters: A Celebration in Memoirs, Stories, and Photographs [Hardcover]

Various (Author), Jill M. Morgan (Editor), Martin H. Greenberg (Editor), Faye Kellerman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 1999

New York Times bestselling authors Diana Gabaldon, Faye Kellerman, and Eileen Goudge have joined together with nine nationally recognized writers of women's fiction to create this poignant collection of original short fiction and non-fiction memoirs. This unique anthology features twelve tales celebrating the relationship between fathers and daughters, and includes family photographs of the authors with their fathers. Just in time for Father's Day, Fathers & Daughters is the perfect gift.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Signet; 1 edition (June 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451196953
• ISBN-13: 978-0451196958
• Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 5.7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,470,162 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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58 of 61 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Fathers and Daughters, May 14, 2000

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Diane Falk - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fathers and Daughters (Paperback)

B-O-R-I-N-G! Only one story is actually by Diana Gabaldon, and a very short one, at that. I was very disappointed that she was promoted so prominently, and contributed so little. The other stories are by current best-selling authors, but that's not why I bought it. Can you say Rip-off?

22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Fathers &Daughers(Diana Gabaldon), July 8, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Fathers and Daughters (Paperback)

I was very disappointed in this book. I had expected that 3 authors would write of their experiences, not 11. I can say that the only one that I found interesting was the one by Diana Gabaldon and several were so uninteresting that I didn't finish reading them.I agree with a previous review - this book played on Diana Gabaldon's wonderful reputation and I am sure she would be disappointed in the finished product....

2.0 out of 5 stars overly sentimental, December 2, 2008

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D. K. Stokes - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fathers and Daughters: A Celebration in Memoirs, Stories, and Photographs (Hardcover)

I'd bought this book because it had stories in it by Diana Gabaldon and Carole Nelson Douglas. Other than the fact that it makes my collections of their works complete, I should have saved my money.

It's an anthology version of sappy, over-sentimental stories you might find in the Father's Day letters to the editor section of any newspaper, or expanded versions of the sentiments you find on the serious Father's Day cards, and the fact that the stories/memoirs were all written by bestselling authors didn't make them any more interesting.

Frustratingly, even though I only read one story at a time, interspersing other books between the stories, they still ran together--to me, it felt as though they were all written about 2 or maybe 3 fathers. Which could be because the authors are mostly contemporaries. Seems like all the fathers were uncommunicative, but fair, and all of them were into playing baseball. They were all pretty much stereotypical fathers of the 40s and 50s. Ho-hum.

I suppose some of my cynicism comes from my distant relationship with my own father, but I am not a fan of sentimentalism, regardless how it's directed.