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Indlæser... Kitchen Privileges : A Memoir (original 2001; udgave 2002)af Mary Higgins Clark
Work InformationKitchen Privileges : A Memoir af Mary Higgins Clark (2001)
   Ingen Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog.  jtmartinstl | Aug 20, 2022 |    ) LilQuebe | Apr 6, 2021 | This is a memoir of her life growing up in the Bronx, her school days and how she became a writer. It's a pleasant talw, but tehre is nothing here that's very dramatic, and it almost seems like after making tons of money for her publisher, they let her do this book as a vanity project. (  ) etxgardener | Sep 19, 2017 | She was a stewardess. She wrote for the radio. Her husband Warren's early death. It was very interesting. ( ) nx74defiant | Apr 30, 2017 |  ) pickleroad | Nov 10, 2016 | ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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Biography & Autobiography.
Nonfiction.
HTML:Angela's Ashes comes home to the Bronx in a brilliant, touching, charming, and bittersweet account of a childhood during the Depression from America's Queen of Suspense. Mary Higgins Clark's memoir begins with the death of her father in 1939. With no money in the houseâ??the Higgins Bar and Grill in the Bronx is failing and in debt, and worry about it is one of the things that has killed her fatherâ??Mary's indomitable Irish mother (she devotes a chapter to her "Wild Irish Mother") puts a classified ad in the Bronx Home News: "Furnished rooms! Kitchen Privileges!" Very shortly there arrives the first in a succession of tenants who will change the lives of the Higgins family and set the young Mary on her start as a writer, while bringing to them all a dose of the Christmas spirit that seemed to have vanished with Mr. Higgins's death. Full of hope, faith, memorable characters, and warmth, Kitchen Privileges brings back into sharp, nostalgic focus the feeling of growing up poor, but determined to survive, in a vanished Bronx that was one of white lace curtains instead of a slum, and at a time when everybody was poor and either needed or offered a helping No library descriptions found. |
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