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The Miss Dennis School of Writing: And Other Lessons from a Woman's Life [Hardcover]

Alice Steinbach (Author)
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August 20, 1996
This first book by Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Steinbach is an intimate, personal collection of essays, rememberances, and columns that follows in the creative non-fiction tradition of Anna Quindelen and Mary Sarton.


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From Publishers Weekly

In this collection of her essays and columns, Pulitzer Prize-winning Baltimore Sun journalist Steinbach seeks to "rescue from insignificance some of the small events that make up a life." These pieces thus explore, with quiet grace, the unexpected pleasures that are gleaned from an appreciation of the "ordinary"?a sleeping cat, a blooming garden, a well-cooked meal. Such familiar?even ostensibly mundane?details of our lives, Steinbach maintains, play a far more important part in shaping our identities and our sense of our relationship to the world than do the "exotic encounters" or momentous events to which we attach much significance. Alternately poignant and humorous, sedately contemplative and bristling with emotional energy, Steinbach's various musings on the daily rhythms of her own moods and experiences transform "everyday life" into a rich and meaningful journey. Author tour.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

Steinbach, a columnist and feature writer for the Baltimore Sun and 1985 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing, presents in her first book an open, honest, charming, and witty collection of personal essays. Focusing on the familiar, Steinbach relates private thoughts and remembrances of people who influenced her, the loss of loved ones, childhood follies and fantasies, the ever-present continuing lessons from her deceased mother and grandmother, her single motherhood and relationship with two grown sons, romance, fashion, growing up, and parenthood. These essays reveal the influence of time and experience on memory, imagination, and reflection. Steinbach offers an inspirational book that will appeal primarily to women over 30 who will identify with the type of experiences and memories she describes. Recommended for public libraries and comprehensive women's studies collections.?Jeris Cassel, Rutgers Univ. Libs., New Brunswick, N.J.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 307 pages
  • Publisher: Bancroft Press (August 20, 1996)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0963124625
  • ISBN-13: 978-0963124623
  • Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 6.1 x 1.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,117,406 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A book to be shared, June 17, 2003
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I purchased this book because I had enjoyed 'Without Reservations' so much. I often share books with my closest friend. By the time I had read the introduction and the first few pages, I knew it would not be enough to simply have her read it when I was done. I knew we had to read it together, taking turns reading it aloud (a new experience for us). Steinbach's musings on everyday life are insightful, laugh-out-loud funny, poignant, a true delight. I plan to buy several copies for Christmas gifts.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Book To Keep, July 12, 2007
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I had read and liked her "Without Reservations" and "Educating Alice." This collection of her columns did not disappoint and I kept going back to re-read what I thought of as hidden gems or things to think about in regard to my own life.
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2 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Great Book!, August 18, 2006
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Alice Steinbach is a great writer! I have enjoyed each one of her books and this was no exception.
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What kind of writing do you do? asked the novelist sitting to my left at a writer's luncheon. Read the first page
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Miss Dennis, Aunt Claire, Martha Stewart, Mother's Day, Valentine's Day, Bunny Stubbs, Emily Dickinson, Working Mother, Anne Frank, Miss Parlett, Miss Pearl Evans, New Yorker, All About Eve, Dorothy Parker, Holiday Inn, Jane Eyre, Mohawk Trail, Nancy Drew, Bette Davis, Mocking Birds, Norman Maclean, Betty Friedan, Camp Minnehaha, Charles Street, Eleanor Roosevelt
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