By Patricia Hampl
Harcourt
Memoir / Midwest Regional Interest
Hardcover, $24.00
ISBN-13 978-0-15-101257-2; ISBN-10 0-15-101257-1
Available by late September
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About the Book
“This memoir of a mother is told by a daughter with honesty and openness. It shows us how a real and intimate relationship can develop between family members if we will embrace each other for who we are. A good book for mothers and grown daughters to share.”
- Susan Paddock, Brown Street Books, Rhinelander, WI
“With her enchanting prose and transcendent vision, [Hampl] is indeed a florist’s daughter – a purveyor of beauty – as well as a careful, tablet-wielding investigator, ever contemplative, measured and patient in her charges.”
– Publishers Weekly, Starred
Widely recognized as one of our finest memoirists, Hampl has written her most intimate, yet most universal, work to date. THE FLORIST’S DAUGHTER is a tribute to her parents, her Midwestern girlhood, and the ardor of supposedly ordinary people.
THE FLORIST’S DAUGHTER is being promoted by the Midwest Booksellers Association and Harcourt as a MIDWEST CONNECTIONS PICK for October. It will also be featured on the front cover of the 2007 MBA Catalog during the upcoming holiday season.
As the child of a debonair Czech father, whose floral work gave him entree into St. Paul society, and a distrustful Irishwoman with an uncanny ability to tell a tale, Patricia Hampl remained an attentive daughter well into adulthood. But it is during the long farewell of her mother’s dying, that she revisits her childhood to write her most personal memoir yet — THE FLORIST’S DAUGHTER.
Written in the elegant prose style for which she is lauded, Hampl traces the arc of her role as dutiful daughter from postwar years past the turbulent sixties. But THE FLORIST’S DAUGHTER is more than a memoir of one family’s life. It is a tribute to supposedly ordinary people and a historic testament to mid-century Middle America. At the heart of this book is the humble passion of people who struggled out of the Depression into a better life, not only for themselves but for the common good. THE FLORIST’S DAUGHTER is Hampl’s most intimate, yet most universal, work to date.
Patricia Hampl is the author of four memoirs – A Romantic Education, Virgin Time, I Could Tell You Stories, and Blue Arabesque – and two collections of poetry. She has received a MacArthur Fellowship, among many other awards, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in St. Paul and is Regents Professor at the University of Minnesota.
