Every Father's Daughter: Twenty-Four Women Writers Remember Their Fathers
"What is it about the relationship between fathers and daughters that provokes so much exquisite tenderness, satisfying communion, longing for more, idealization from both ends, followed often if not inevitably by disappointment, hurt, and the need to understand and forgive, or to finger the guilt of not understanding and loving enough?" writes Phillip Lopate, in his introduction to this collection of 24 personal essays by women writers writing about their fathers. The editor, Margaret McMullan, is herself a distinguished novelist and educator. About half of these essays were written by invitation for this anthology; others were selected by Ms. McMullan and her associate, Philip Lopate, who provides an introduction. Contributors include many well-known writers Alice Munro, Jayne Anne Phillips, Alexandra Styron, Ann Hood, Bobbie Ann Mason, Maxine Hong Kingston among them and writers perhaps less well-known but no less cogent, inventive, perceptive, questioning or loving of their fathers
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Every Father's Daughter: Twenty-Four Women Writers Remember Their Fathers
"What is it about the relationship between fathers and daughters that provokes so much exquisite tenderness, satisfying communion, longing for more, idealization from both ends, followed often if not inevitably by disappointment, hurt, and the need to understand and forgive, or to finger the guilt of not understanding and loving enough?" writes Phillip Lopate, in his introduction to this collection of 24 personal essays by women writers writing about their fathers. The editor, Margaret McMullan, is herself a distinguished novelist and educator. About half of these essays were written by invitation for this anthology; others were selected by Ms. McMullan and her associate, Philip Lopate, who provides an introduction. Contributors include many well-known writers Alice Munro, Jayne Anne Phillips, Alexandra Styron, Ann Hood, Bobbie Ann Mason, Maxine Hong Kingston among them and writers perhaps less well-known but no less cogent, inventive, perceptive, questioning or loving of their fathers
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Every Father's Daughter: Twenty-Four Women Writers Remember Their Fathers

Every Father's Daughter: Twenty-Four Women Writers Remember Their Fathers

Every Father's Daughter: Twenty-Four Women Writers Remember Their Fathers

Every Father's Daughter: Twenty-Four Women Writers Remember Their Fathers

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"What is it about the relationship between fathers and daughters that provokes so much exquisite tenderness, satisfying communion, longing for more, idealization from both ends, followed often if not inevitably by disappointment, hurt, and the need to understand and forgive, or to finger the guilt of not understanding and loving enough?" writes Phillip Lopate, in his introduction to this collection of 24 personal essays by women writers writing about their fathers. The editor, Margaret McMullan, is herself a distinguished novelist and educator. About half of these essays were written by invitation for this anthology; others were selected by Ms. McMullan and her associate, Philip Lopate, who provides an introduction. Contributors include many well-known writers Alice Munro, Jayne Anne Phillips, Alexandra Styron, Ann Hood, Bobbie Ann Mason, Maxine Hong Kingston among them and writers perhaps less well-known but no less cogent, inventive, perceptive, questioning or loving of their fathers

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ISBN-13: 9781620540138
Publisher: McPherson & Company
Publication date: 04/28/2015
Pages: 302
Sales rank: 629,311
Product dimensions: 5.80(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.30(d)

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About The Author
The editor, Margaret McMullan, is herself a distinguished novelist and educator. About half of these essays were written by invitation for this anthology; others were selected by Ms. McMullan and her associate, Philip Lopate, who provides an introduction. The contributors include many well-known writers-Alice Munro, Jayne Anne Phillips, Alexandra Styron, Ann Hood, Bobbie Ann Mason, Maxine Hong Kingston, among others-as well as writers less well-known but no less cogent, inventive, perceptive, lacerating, questioning, or loving of their fathers.

Table of Contents

Foreword Margaret McMullan 9

Introduction Phillip Lopate 17

Absences

No Regrets Jane Smiley 23

Christmas From Now On Patricia Henley 33

My Father's Daughter Bliss Broyard 37

Secrets of the Sun Mako Yoshikawa 51

Sol's Exodus Nancy Jainchill 67

Lost & Found

My Dad Jill McCorkle 79

My Father's Bible Joyce Maynard 87

Masters in This Hall Melora Wolff 97

Crossing State Lines Jessica Woodruff 117

The Memory I Chose Jane Friedman 129

Waiting for My Father Barbara Shoup 137

The American Father Maxine Hong Kingston 147

Presences

Life Saver Ann Hood 167

Reading My Father Alexandra Styron 173

Gifts Nancy McCabe 191

Oxygen Susan Neville 207

What He Worked For Susan Perabo 219

Do You See What I See? Antonya Nelson 225

Daddy's Dime Store Lee Smith 229

Balloons Johanna Gohmann 235

A Relationship of Words Lily Lopate 243

Burning the Trees Jayne Anne Phillips 255

My Fathers Bobbie Ann Mason 263

Working for a Living Alice Munro 267

Contributors & Acknowledgments 295

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