Titlebook: Writers and Their Mothers; Dale Salwak Book 2018 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 Ian McEwan.Martin Amis.Margaret Drab

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Lacunar-Stroke

主講人

Feckless

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Mother Tongue: A Memoirleeps and the wipers toil to clear the windscreen, I can’t help thinking of what she said—.. I haven’t heard that in years. Lady Muck. Where there’s muck there’s brass. It must have been in use in the 1930s, or 40s. I’ll use it. It’s right for the novel I’m finishing now. I’ll have it. Then I’ll alw

金哥占卜者

‘Persistent Ghost’after my return to England in June 1944. In the first period, as an only child, I was very close to her: later, though very fond and certainly dutiful, I felt less close. She was a warm and intelligent woman, wholly centred on my father and myself, having been brought up in difficult circumstances,

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NEXUS

‘Bring Her Again to Me … ’ncreasingly difficult. We both longed for her to die and, at her request, I would read Psalm 23 to her over and over again, as she walked through the valley of the shadow of death, fearing no evil. It was the psalm I had first got to know long before in .. My mother died on my birthday, October 4th,

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My Mother’s Deskg across the country from Rhode Island to California and back, with stints in Boston and New York City. Wherever we lived, a desk, borrowed or bought second-hand, stood in a room without a door but that still provided my mother a modicum of privacy to write. Covered with her papers and notebooks in