Merry Recluse A Life in Essays

Name: Merry Recluse A Life in Essays
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ISBN: 9781582433141

ISBN-10: 1582433143

ISBN-13: 9781582433141

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Authors: Caroline Knapp

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Caroline Knapp's was one of this country's most intelligent, graceful and humorous voices in memoir. In Drinking: A Love Story, she homed in on the often unspeakable fears and longings that led to her alcoholism and back again. In Pack of Two, she trained her eye on the bonds between human and animals. And in Appetites: Why Women Want, she brought her rigorous scrutiny to the ways in which culture shapes a woman's body and her hunger. Now, with The Merry Recluse: A Life in Essays, Knapp shows us that her vision through a wider lens is as brilliant as through a narrow one. This collection of essays spanning fifteen years of witty, thoughtful, provocative observations on modern culture and…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Publisher: Counterpoint Press
Publication date: 4/20/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.55" wide x 8.27" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Introduction


With: Friendship, Family, Love, Lucille


On Being a Twin


The Cord That Binds


Breaking Away


Girl Crushes


When You Just Want to Be Loved


Confessions of a Control Freak


Letter to Zoe


Grace Notes


How to Have a Dog's Life


Lucille Versus Stumpy


My Canine, Myself


Dog Group


No Dogs Allowed


Best of Breed: The Mix


Without: Grief, Loss, Sobriety


The Grace Period


Grief Stages


Mid-Mourning


A Mother's Work


Detail Work


Grieving Lessons


Clearing Up


Food as Enemy


Getting Better


On Loneliness


Lessons in Loss


Living Without Alcohol


A Letter to My Father


Acamprosate


The Problem with Moderation


Life Without Anesthesia


Out There: The State of the World


An Open Letter to Corporate America


Twelve Steps Down


From Ares to Ridicules


Beyond Bad Hair


Notes on Dave


What Women Really Need from Science


He Says, She Says


Dicking Around


Death to Niceness


Harassment 101


Patchwork


Longing to Be Italian


Why We Keep Stuff


Teddy Bear II


Nesting Fever


Sloblessness


Notes on Nesting


Overload, Post 9/11


In Here: Reflections


Longing for Normalcy


Endless (and Endless) Summer


Coming Home


Nothing to Wear


Exercising Options


I Hate Money


Satan Deals the Cards


Transfer Station


The Rage Cage


The Feminine Critique


Barbie Does Death


Biceps Changed My Life


The Merry Recluse: Solitude, Shyness, Loneliness


Time Alone


Speaking Out for Shyness


The Merry Recluse