Missing Persons: Or, My Grandmother's Secrets - Paperback
by Clair Wills
$13.99
$19.00
-26%Quantity
01
Pay over time for orders over $35.00 with
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250371928ISBN-10:1250371929UPC:9781250371928Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Sociology, Social History, EuropeBook Topic:Marriage & Family, IrelandSize:8.20 x 5.30 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCP08DT793
Missing Persons: Or, My Grandmother's Secrets
How far would you go for the missing?
Blending private and public history, cultural analysis, family memoir, and autobiography, Clair Wills explores profound questions about memory, loss, motherhood, and emigration. She traces a history of sexual secrecy through four generations of unplanned pregnancies in her own family, stretching from the 1890s to the 1980s and from the West of Ireland to...Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250371928ISBN-10:1250371929UPC:9781250371928Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Sociology, Social History, EuropeBook Topic:Marriage & Family, IrelandSize:8.20 x 5.30 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCP08DT793
Clair Wills is the King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge. Her books include Lovers and Strangers: An Immigrant History of Post-War Britain, named the Irish Times International Nonfiction Book of the Year, and That Neutral Island: A Cultural History of Ireland During the Second World War, winner of the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize, among other works. She is a...
Publisher: Picador USA
Contributor(s)
Author
Free shipping on orders over $75. Standard shipping takes 3-7 business days. Returns accepted within 30 days of purchase.