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Cora Fry's Pillow Book
Author: Rosellen Brown
Cora Fry's Pillow Book
$19.00
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About This Book
On Sale
01/31/1996
Book Details
Through the persona of Cora Fry, a wife and mother living in a small New Hampshire town, Rosellen Brown explores the ambivalent ties of love, loyalty, marriage, and family in a series of related poems. This volume includes the entire text of Cora Fry (1977), a kind of dramatic monologue, written in spare, simple lines, which describes the young woman's daily life and troubled marriage. A sequel of newer poems, Cora Fry's Pillow Book (1994), confronts the challenges that come with a woman's growth toward middle age, reflecting an older Cora's place in her family, community, and the larger world.
Imprint Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN
9780374524432
In The News
“Full of humor, truth, anger, and tenderness . . . Rosellen Brown has given us a novel stripped down to essences in this remarkable set of poems, the vivid evocations of a country woman's life.” —May Sarton