Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780385720557)

A beautifully crafted and inviting account of one woman's life, Safekeeping offers a sublimely different kind of autobiography. Setting aside a straightforward narrative in favor of brief passages of vivid prose, Abigail Thomas revisits the pivotal moments and the tiny incidents that have shaped her life: pregnancy at 18; single motherhood (of three ) by the age of 26; the joys and frustrations of three marriages; and the death of her second husband, who was her best friend. The stories made of these incidents are startling in their clarity and reassuring in their wisdom.

This is a book in which silence speaks as eloquently as what is revealed. Openhearted and effortlessly funny, these brilliantly selected glimpses of the arc of a life are, in an age of excessive confession and recrimination, a welcome tonic.

Author: Abigail Thomas
ISBN-10: 0385720556
ISBN-13: 9780385720557
Publisher: Anchor Books
Language: English
Published: 04/17/2001
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 7.88h x 5.46w x 0.49d