Florist's Daughter

Name: Florist's Daughter
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ISBN: 9780156034036

ISBN-10: 0156034034

ISBN-13: 9780156034036

Edition: 2007

Authors: Patricia Hampl

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During the long farewell of her mother's dying, Patricia Hampl revisits her midwestern girlhood. Daughter of a debonair Czech father, whose floral work gave him entree to St. Paul society, and a distrustful Irishwoman with an uncanny ability to tell a tale, Hampl remained, primarily and passionately, a daughter well into adulthood. She traces the arc of faithfulness and struggle that comes with that role-from the postwar years past the turbulent sixties. At the heart of The Florist's Daughter is the humble passion of people who struggled out of the Depression into a better chance, not only for themselves but for the common good. Widely recognized as one of our most masterful memoirists,…

Book details

List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 1/15/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



A series of vignettes from


The Florists Daughter appeared in an essay titled


Lilac Nostalgia in Five


Points Journal in Spring 2003