The Test by Bryant, Dorothy

The Test (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781558612747)

Vendor: Dorothy Bryant
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
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The Test by Bryant, Dorothy

The Test

$13.95
The Test by Bryant, Dorothy

The Test

$13.95
Format: Paperback
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From American Book Award-winner Dorothy Bryant, comes this timeless story about caring for an aging parent. With complexity, bravery, and dry humor, The Test details the frustrating push and pull between Pat and her eighty-year-old father, who is attempting--for the third and last time--to pass the test to renew his driver's license. Bryant's unflinching gaze sees deep into the hearts of both parent and child, revealing the dramatic, awkward, and universal struggle each faces with aging, memory, and love. Trying to reconstruct memories of her childhood and of who her parents once were, Pat puzzles out the confabulations of family memory: how stories become accepted fact, how facts get twisted in stories, and how some perspectives are lost completely. In a deeply sensitive examination of one woman's coping with the changes of aging, Bryant offers a rare and moving testimony.

Author: Dorothy Bryant
ISBN-10: 1558612742
ISBN-13: 9781558612747
Publisher: Feminist Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2001
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.44h x 5.56w x 0.56d
By Dorothy Bryant
By Dorothy Bryant
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Dorothy Bryant is a native San Franciscan, the daughter of immigrants from northern Italy. She attended public schools in the Mission District, then San Francisco State University, completing a BA in music (1950) and an MA in creative writing (1964). From 1953 to 1976 she taught music and English in Bay Area high schools and colleges, spending the most time at Contra Costa College, after moving to Berkeley in 1964. She began writing fiction and articles in 1960.

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