Reading my mother back : a memoir in childhood animal stories
Baker, Timothy C.2022
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When his mother died, Timothy C. Baker discovered that there was almost no record of her existence, and no stories that were his to tell: the only way to bring her back was through reading. 'Reading My Mother Back' is a genre-bending memoir that explores a life marked by trauma, illness, religion, and abuse through a focus on the books Baker and his mother shared. The book combines accounts of rereading childhood classics with true and apocryphal stories of a quiet life, marked by great sorrow and great joy. The book is about grief and memory and how our childhood reading shapes the way we see the world; it's about loneliness and the search for belonging; it's about how ordinary lives are transfigured by storytelling.
Main title:
Reading my mother back : a memoir in childhood animal stories / Timothy C. Baker.
Author:
Baker, Timothy C., author
Imprint:
London : Goldsmith's Press, 2022.
Collation:
168 pages ; 20 cm.
Contents:
The Story of Babar - - Merle the High Flying Squirrel - - Charlotte's Web - - The Wind in the Williows - - The Magician's Nephew - - Watership Down - - The Secret Garden - - The Book of the Dun Cow - - The Man Who Was Magic - - Notes - - Acknowledgements.
ISBN:
9781913380472 (hbk)
Dewey class:
028.9
LC class:
Z1003.2
Local class:
028.9
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3181095
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