Ten Circles Upon the Pond

出版者:Alfred A. Knopf

作者:Tranel, Virginia

页数:318

价格:$22.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780375415166

<p>In this wonderfully warm and humorous， loving and reflective book， Virginia Tranel looks at her life through the ten children she brought so joyously into this world.<br />

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In 1957， as a young Catholic-raised bride from Iowa， she headed into the rural West with her husband. Within the year she gave birth under ether to her first child. That son was a senior in college in 1978， when her tenth and last child was born&mdash;an unmedicated birth that， in a sense， symbolized her journey toward consciousness during those years of enormous social change.<br />

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Virginia Tranel traces that journey by centering one chapter on each child; she weaves back and forth in time， recapturing the dozen moves that her vagabond family made over the years as they sou</p>