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These Precious Days: Essays

byAnn Patchett

Ann Patchett's These Precious Days investigates the essays, grounding a large subject in the people and choices that shaped it. Using biographical detail, personal testimony, and historical context, These Precious Days moves between close observation and a wider account of the systems surrounding its subject. By placing These Precious Days within biography & autobiography and literary collections, the book reveals why its central tensions extend well beyond one person, place, or moment. Readers come away with both the essential context and a sharper sense of how the essays continues to shape the present.

Publisher

Harper

Publication date

Nov 23, 2021

Format

Print edition

Pages

320

ISBN

9780063092785