Blue Shoe Paperback - 2003
by Anne Lamott
In a disarming blend of everyday life and the sublime, of reverence and irreverence, and of humor and grace, Lamott speaks directly to closely held concerns, bringing comfort to anyone whose family life can feel overwhelming and uncontainable.
Summary
The New York Times Bestseller from the beloved author of Bird by Bird and Traveling Mercies.
Mattie Ryder is marvelously neurotic, well-intentioned, funny, religious, sarcastic, tender, angry, and broke. Her life at the moment is a wreck: her marriage has failed, her mother is failing, her house is rotting, her waist is expanding, her children are misbehaving, and she has a crush on a married man. Then she finds a small rubber blue shoenothing more than a gumball trinketleft behind by her father. For Mattie, it becomes a talismana chance to recognize the past for what it was, to see the future as she always hoped it could be, and to finally understand her family, herself, and the ever-unfolding mystery of her sweet, sad, and sometimes surprising life.
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- Title Blue Shoe
- Author Anne Lamott
- Binding Paperback
- Edition (2nd)
- Pages 319
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Riverhead Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2003-09-02
- ISBN 9781573223423 / 1573223425
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.9 in (20.07 x 12.95 x 2.29 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Western U.S.
- Cultural Region: West Coast
- Geographic Orientation: California
- Locality: San Francisco, California
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Mothers and daughters, Domestic fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002022824
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
"Moving and funny, fetchingly irreverent and soulful, Blue Shoe is an absolute joy."Chicago Sun-Times
”Everybody loves Anne Lamott...[she] writes with an emotional shorthand that’s instantly decipherable and funny to anyone who’s had childrenor parents.”The Christian Science Monitor
"Irresistible...Lamott has created a work full of shaggy, truthful charm."San Francisco Chronicle
”Glorious...After reading Blue Shoe, you feel as if you had sat on the kitchen floor and talked with the author late into the night about your mothers, your bodies, your lovers, and God. And that, in a nutshell, is the minor miracle of Lamott’s writing.”The Atlanta Journal Constitution
”Philosophical, honest, and poignant, Lamott writes about real life and how it goes on, through good and through bad.”Boston Herald
”The novel’s effect on the reader is profoundly springlike: It is tonic.”Minneapolis Star Tribune
"Anyone who's ever had a heartacheor a familywill relate to Anne Lamott's poignant novels."Rosie Magazine
"Blue Shoe is a gift you will want to give yourself."St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Citations
- New York Times, 01/11/2004, Page 24
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