Sharon Sloan Fiffer

Home: American Writers Remember Rooms of Their Own (Vintage Books) Sharon Sloan Fiffer

Jacket Description/Flap: In Home, eighteen of our finest writers evoke different rooms--from their pasts, their present, or simply their imaginations--in order to investigate the ways in which homes contain our lives. The results are touching, provocative, and sometimes hilarious. And since a portion of the editors' proceeds will go to organizations that help the homeless, Home is really where the heart is. Contributors include: Lynda Barry, Richard Bausch, Tony Earley, James Finn Garner, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Allan Gurganus, Colin Harrison, Kathryn Harrison, Gish Jen, Karen Karbo, Alex Kotlowitz, Clint McCown, Susan Power, Esmeralda Santiago, Mona Simpson, Jane Smiley, Sallie Tisdale, and Bailey White. "Unforgettable... These pages are filled with the kind of details that etch a childhood place into the deep recesses of memory, that distinguish the sensual life of one family from another."--Los Angeles Times Book ReviewPublisher Marketing: Each of the writers in this collection evokes a different room - a room he or she lived in, lives in, or, in one case, hilariously invents. Houses are made of bricks and wood and concrete - homes are built with memories and dreams and imagination. These writers, in moods and voices ranging from the comic to the haunting, will awaken for each of us the memories, perhaps long buried, of an important place: home. Review Citations:

Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1996 pg. 86 (EAN 9780679768852, Paperback)

Publishers Weekly 08/28/1995 pg. 93 (EAN 9780679442066, Hardcover)

Kirkus Reviews 09/15/1995 pg. 1322 (EAN 9780679442066, Hardcover)

Library Journal 10/15/1995 pg. 61 (EAN 9780679442066, Hardcover)

Booklist 11/01/1995 pg. 449 (EAN 9780679442066, Hardcover)

School Library Journal 06/01/1996 pg. 169 (EAN 9780679442066, Hardcover)

Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/1996 pg. 86 (EAN 9780679442066, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Fiffer, Sharon Sloan Sharon Fiffer collects buttons, Bakelite, pottery, vintage potholders, keys, locks, and other killer stuff. She is coeditor of the anthologies "Home: American Writers Remember Rooms of Their Own"; "Body"; and" Family: American Writers Remember Their Own," and the author of "Killer Stuff "and "Dead Guy's Stuff," the previous two Jane Wheel mysteries, and "Imagining America," She lives near Chicago. Contributor Bio:  Fiffer, Steve Sharon Sloan Fiffer and Steve Fiffer are the editors of Home and Family, and are life collaborators. They live in Evanston, Illinois, with their three children.