9780815608646-0815608640-Missing Alice: In Search of a Mother’s Voice (Writing American Women)

Missing Alice: In Search of a Mother’s Voice (Writing American Women)

ISBN-13: 9780815608646
ISBN-10: 0815608640
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Susan Cole
Publication date: 2007
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Format: Hardcover 216 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780815608646
ISBN-10: 0815608640
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Susan Cole
Publication date: 2007
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Format: Hardcover 216 pages

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Missing Alice: In Search of a Mother’s Voice (Writing American Women) (ISBN-13: 9780815608646 and ISBN-10: 0815608640), written by authors Susan Cole, was published by Syracuse University Press in 2007. With an overall rating of 3.6 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Missing Alice: In Search of a Mother’s Voice (Writing American Women) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.57.

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Author Susan Letzler Cole lost her mother, Alice, to cancer in 1990. In this ""autobiography of two voices,"" she traces a daughter's search to recover the ""missing parts"" of a mother, to know her as an individual for the first time. Shunning linear narrative, Cole experiments with a variety of approaches: letters written to her mother three years after Alice died at the age of 78; oral history via taped conversations between mother and daughter during Alice's illness; excerpts from her 14-year-old mother's 1926 diary juxtaposed with the author's expost facto letters to the adolescent diarist. Finally, Cole's own diary entries contemplate vital themes of family, love, and time. At once innovative and heartfelt, ""Missing Alice"" seeks to make heard one of those ""lost"" women's voices that speak from and help create the world that we know. It is a fine choice for classes in biography, autobiography, and women's writing, as well as American Jewish and immigrant experience, oral history/memoir, and grief therapy.

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