The Gift: Novel
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- Synopsis
- The connections and interconnections of past and present--the realization that life is a whole continuously echoing back to the past and unfolding toward the future--were sources of the strength, renewal, and joy celebrated in H.D.'s Trilogy and, in a differing, but no less real way, in The Gift--her novelistic memoir of childhood. In recapturing her memories of being a very little girl in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and later on a country place outside Philadelphia, H.D. "let the story tell itself or the child tell it." It is this voice or child's-eye view that lends The Gift its special charm as H.D. recreates the ordinary and extraordinary occasions of her early youth, the nightmares and delights. A road-company presentation of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Christmas Eve with its particular family ritual, a family outing, a disturbing accident--the happenings and incidents, perceptions and misconceptions with which a child's life is crowded are the substance of this most winning book. As she did for the H.D. novel HERmione, H.D.'s daughter, Perdita Schaffner, provides a fine introduction.
- Copyright:
- 1982
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780811223584
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780811208543
- Publisher:
- New Directions
- Date of Addition:
- 04/14/17
- Copyrighted By:
- the Estate of Hilda Doolittle
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Psychology
- Grade Levels:
- Fourth grade
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.