The Florist's Daughter

The Florist's Daughter
by Patricia Hampl

The Florist's Daughter
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Author: Patricia Hampl
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-10-01
ISBN: 0151012571
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: Harcourt

Book Reviews of The Florist's Daughter

Book Review: Read this book if you need help falling asleep...
Summary: 1 Stars

I found this memoir to be extremely boring. My book club members agreed and we even live in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area where the book takes place. The author is obviously a poet and used a lot of words I had never heard of. The story was not compelling enough for me to even bother looking up the unfamiliar words in my dictionary. Although the cover is beautiful, do not waste your time or money. There are plenty of other good books to be read.

Summary of The Florist's Daughter

During the long farewell of her mother's dying, Patricia Hampl revisits her Midwestern girlhood. Daughter of a debonair Czech father, whose floral work gave him entrZe into St. Paul society, and a distrustful Irishwoman with an uncanny ability to tell a tale, Hampl remained, primarily and passionately, a daughter well into adulthood. She traces the arc of faithfulness and struggle that comes with that role from the postwar years past the turbulent sixties. The Florist's Daughter is a tribute to the ardor of supposedly ordinary people. Its concerns reach beyond a single life to achieve a historic testament to midcentury middle America. At the heart of this book is the humble passion of people who struggled out of the Depression into a better chance, not only for themselves but for the common good. Widely recognized as one of our most masterful memoirists, Patricia Hampl has written her most intimate, yet most universal, work to date.

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