Mary Gordon, bestselling author of Spending and The Shadow Man, investigates the role that place plays in the formation of identity -- the connections between how we experience place and how we become ourselves. From her grandmother's house, which stood at the center of her childhood life, to a rented house on Cape Cod, where she began to mature as a writer, Mary Gordon navigates the reader through these spaces and worlds with subtlety and style. Wise, humorous, and intelligent, Seeing Through Places illuminates the relationship between the physical, emotional, and intellectual architectures of our lives, showing us the far-reaching power that places ultimately have in influencing a life.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents
My Grandmother's House
Girl Child in a Women's World
Places to Play
The Country Next Door
The Architecture of a Life with Priests
Sanctuary in a City of Display
The Room in the World
Boulevards of the Imagination
