Extended family / / Linda Chase

• Autore: Chase Linda <1941->
• Pubblicazione: Manchester : , : Carcanet, , 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (193 p.)
• Disciplina: 811.54; 821.914
• Soggetto topico: Families; Interpersonal relations; English poetry
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Dedication""; ""I : Extended Family""; ""Independence""; ""The Handover""; ""Grand Central Station, 1947""; ""The Long Island School""; ""The Long Island School""; ""Copley Pond""; ""Catching for America""; ""The Geography of Goodbyes""; ""Launching from Brooklyn""; ""Night Light""; ""The Last Sane Thing""; ""Flights from China""; ""Death in the Family""; ""Flower Market with My Son""; ""3lb 6oz""; ""Extended Family""; ""Against a Backdrop of Fireworks""; ""Tuning Your Cello""; ""The Things You Bring""; ""Telling You"" ; ""Death Notice""""Do You Think the Snow Will Stick?""; ""Frames of Mind""; ""Keeping the Boys Home""; ""Paces""; ""Cellar Dance""; ""Sharing""; ""Premature""; ""Nice""; ""All Day Goodbyes""; ""Confidence""; ""Scene Shift""; ""One of Them""; ""Judo Mad""; ""â€?Itâ€?s Only Timeâ€?""; ""The Young Taoist Transcends His Body""; ""Passing""; ""White China Bowl""; ""Consultant""; ""The Widow Puts Off Grief""; ""Limits""; ""Soup Course""; ""Immaculate Mother""; ""An Amusing Little Breakfast""; ""Pre-Op""; ""Verse Vampire""; ""The Good Sister and the Good Brother""; ""Beach Story""; ""The Giveaway"" ; ""Upgraded""""Mentor""; ""My Last Lover""; ""Still Things Left""; ""II : Younger Men Have Birthdays Too""; ""Younger Men Have Birthdays Too""; ""Love Watch""; ""Gamble""; ""Loving Parents""; ""Purification""; ""Secret""; ""Restaurant""; ""Urgency""; ""Cooking for You""; ""Journeys with my Phantom Lover""; ""Flying to Spain""; ""Tuscany""; ""The Same as What?""; ""Red Wings""; ""My Brave Pink""; ""Ourselves""; ""The Radio Next Door Is Far Too Loud""; ""You Have a Daughter""; ""Carrot Wheels""; ""The GUM Clinic""; ""The Ticking Son""; ""Passing the Parcel""; ""The Afternoon After"" ; ""The Badly-Done-By Finish""""The Tin Dragon Fights Back""; ""My Friend Who Works""; ""Scuffing""; ""Out of the Loop""; ""Single Was Swell""; ""Poetic Licence""; ""Early Train South""; ""Graffiti""; ""Here Again""; ""Last Logging On""; ""Hacker""; ""Dreaming Knows""; ""Slow Pink""; ""About the Author""; ""Also by Linda Chase from Carcanet Press""; ""Copyright""
• Sommario/riassunto: Extended Family is a sensual celebration of the varied relationships that make up lives richly lived: from the subtle, intimate interactions of close family members and lovers, to the mutual rewards and stresses of relationships with friends, therapists, students and housemates. The book begins in America, with childhood memories and adolescent love. In the second section, 'Younger Men Have Birthdays Too', a love affair unravels in a sequence of tender, angry love poems. In the final section, relationships encompass casual interactions and the close understandings of friends, loving kindness a
• Titolo autorizzato: Extended family
• ISBN: 1-84777-791-0; 9781857548671; 1-84777-338-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910453796903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II