 Author Name: Fox, Suzanne
Title: Home Life: A Journey Through Rooms and Recollections
Book Condition: Good.
ISBN Number: 0684835177 / 9780684835174
Seller ID: 0311R445505
Hardcover. 1st edition hardcover with dustjacket 1997 Simon & Schuster. Very clean; binding tight. Would be Very Good but pages towards the end are damp-wrinkled. 174pp. An attractive little book. Language: English. 'This is a memoir, but don't be put off. Fox has organized her memories around a witty and beguiling conceit: rooms, homes, and spaces she has stayed in or, in the case of the Bordeaux room at the Metropolitan Museum, been enchanted by. Fox has a concrete and sensual appreciation of the resonance of the objects in a room--the light from a window, the comforts of a particular space--and she writes about them with care. While some memoirs reek of self-involvement, this one invites the reader in: to her parents' suburban home in New Jersey; to an artistically shabby pensione in Paris; to a friend's sun-drenched California guest room where there was, almost literally, a monster hidden. Good writing sometimes comes cheap, but here the writing is lapidary without being overly precious. Welcome and thoughtful as a night-light in a dark hall.'--GraceAnne A. DeCandido, Booklist.
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