- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Paris Press (Dec 1 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1930464126
- ISBN-13: 978-1930464124
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.2 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 499 g
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Amazon Bestsellers Rank:
#338,196 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #76 in Books > Parenting & Families > Family Relationships > Siblings
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Product Description
This heartwarming and heart-wrenching collection of stories, memoirs, and poems celebrates the beautifully complex world of sisters. A relationship like no other, the unbreakable link between sisters can be at once sweet and loving, fierce and cruel. From childhood to old age, rivalry to devotion, hysterical laughter to tears of grief, the inescapable bonds between sisters create a unique journey. Sisters is for anyone who knows sisters, wishes they had a sister, adores her own sister, or would, on occasion, like to trade her in.
Contributors include: Joyce Armor, Margaret Atwood, Joan Baez, Claire Bateman, Simone de Beauvoir, Robin Becker, Jane Bowles, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lan Samantha Chang, Marilyn Chin, Catherine Chung, Lucille Clifton, Clare Coss, Edwidge Danticat, Sadie and Bessie Delany, Rita Dove, Delia Ephron, M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Glass, Barbara L. Greenberg, Jane Hirshfield, Cynthia Hogue, Beverly Jensen, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Ana Maria Jomolca, Mary Karr, Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Tsipi Keller, Barbara Kingsolver, Maxine Kumin, Jeanne M. Leiby, Audre Lorde, Grace Paley, Dorothy Parker, Martha Rhodes, Muriel Rukeyser, Myra Shapiro, Ali Smith, Misty Urban, Alice Walker, Wendy Wasserstein and Daisy Zamora.
Contributors include: Joyce Armor, Margaret Atwood, Joan Baez, Claire Bateman, Simone de Beauvoir, Robin Becker, Jane Bowles, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lan Samantha Chang, Marilyn Chin, Catherine Chung, Lucille Clifton, Clare Coss, Edwidge Danticat, Sadie and Bessie Delany, Rita Dove, Delia Ephron, M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Glass, Barbara L. Greenberg, Jane Hirshfield, Cynthia Hogue, Beverly Jensen, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Ana Maria Jomolca, Mary Karr, Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Tsipi Keller, Barbara Kingsolver, Maxine Kumin, Jeanne M. Leiby, Audre Lorde, Grace Paley, Dorothy Parker, Martha Rhodes, Muriel Rukeyser, Myra Shapiro, Ali Smith, Misty Urban, Alice Walker, Wendy Wasserstein and Daisy Zamora.
About the Author
Jan Freeman is the Director and Founder of Paris Press. She is the author of three books of poetry, Simon Says, Hyena, Autumn Sequence, and a new manuscript, Blue Structure. She lives in Ashfield, MA. Her younger sisters live in Atlanta and New York City.
Emily Wojcik is the Assistant Editor of Paris Press. She teaches writing and American literature at the University of Connecticut, and lives in Northampton, MA. Her younger sister lives in New York City.
Deborah Bull has spent her career in publishing, most recently as Director of Photosearch,Inc./Fair Street Productions (NYC), which produced illustrated books, including anthologies on a wide variety of subjects. She lives in New York City. Her younger sister lives in Los Angeles.
Emily Wojcik is the Assistant Editor of Paris Press. She teaches writing and American literature at the University of Connecticut, and lives in Northampton, MA. Her younger sister lives in New York City.
Deborah Bull has spent her career in publishing, most recently as Director of Photosearch,Inc./Fair Street Productions (NYC), which produced illustrated books, including anthologies on a wide variety of subjects. She lives in New York City. Her younger sister lives in Los Angeles.
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
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Sister Act, Nov 9 2009
By D. Aiges - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Sisters: An Anthology (Paperback)
Having grown up with a sister who is just fifteen months younger than me, I've always enjoyed reading about sisters and their various relationships. This new anthology has a little something for everyone: if you have a sister or even a friend who is like a sister to you. The writers are varied, from Margaret Atwood to Wendy Wasserstein. And the truth about the complicated relationships of sisters shines through every piece: the bonds, the rivalries, and how the relationships can change over time. A perfect gift.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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A critical missing piece in the picture of human relationships!, Nov 13 2009
By Lotta - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Sisters: An Anthology (Paperback)
Why is there so little written about sisters? The social science literature has so many excellent studies of parental relationships, marriage, romantic relationships, and so very little about this intensely interesting bond. These stories, essays and poems offer poignant and evocative dimensions of the complex, fraught, loving, competitive, and powerful relationships sisters experience. I hope this becomes volume 1 of a series, and I plan to make this my holiday gift for everyone I know who has a sister, wishes she had a sister, or has become a symbolic 'sister'. Thank you, Paris Press!!!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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People magazine got it right!, Dec 17 2009
By J. Gibson - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Sisters: An Anthology (Paperback)
This book is a gem--as another reviewer said, why has there been no literature before like this? I once told a friend of mine who only had a brother that an older sister is like a mother--only younger. But it is more complicated than that, and it took many, many writers to convey the complexity of the relationship. I am pasting in the People review--not a literary powerhouse,I know, but they got this one spot-on.PEOPLE Magazine Review: 3.5 out of 4 stars
Writers including Margaret Atwood and Alice Walker explore sisterhood in this intelligent collection. Don't look for sugar sweetness here; do expect heartache. One woman mourns the younger sister she lost. Another recalls trying to be "A good daughter" while her wilder sister broke loose. The book makes it clear that sisters don't outgrow their bonds. "Life doesn't go backwards and I want to know you," poet Daisy Zamora writes. "To recognize you./"That is, to get to know you again." Once a sister, always one.
Buy it for a sister in your life.
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