- Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: Anchor; Reprint edition (Dec 1 1996)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0385471297
- ISBN-13: 978-0385471299
- Product Dimensions: 14.1 x 2.2 x 21.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 458 g
- See Complete Table of Contents
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One of several excellent pieces in this well-crafted anthology on the ties that bind sisters is the powerfully affecting essay "Last Things." In it, novelist Debra Spark writes movingly, humorously, and painfully of her sister Cyndy, who died of breast cancer at 26. Several other stories and essays have equally poignant origins, springing from siblings mired in illness or lost to violence, and written, of course, by the sisters who got away. Still, even the bleaker pieces hold lovely, ethereal moments and the relationships between sisters are full and complex. Warmth, love, hilarity, shared memories, and the fierce competition of blood rivals are well represented, too. In a bedroom shared by two young sisters in "My Gertrude Stein," Anita, the more intrepid, sensual one has the bed by the window. On hot, sticky nights she sleeps splayed across the sheets in "star position," describing breezes her sister is dying to feel. "It's exquisite," says Anita. "Like a cat brushing past. Like, like, no--now it's over."
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Collection of stories and essays exploring the relationships between sisters.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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absorbing and intriguing, Nov 9 2005
By E. M. Bristol "bibliophile" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: SISTER TO SISTER (Hardcover)
In this anthology, women writers examine their relationship to their sisters. Lucy Grealy writes about her twin sister and why she does not mention her much in her memoir. Bonnie Friedman writes about her perplexing relationship with her older, eccentric sister. There are mentally ill sisters, physically ill sisters, illegitimate sisters, and the tones are by turns, admiring, exasperated, loving and distant. The writers use both fiction and nonfiction in this thought-provoking collection.
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