Food for the Winter

by Geraldine Connolly

Book Overview

In Food for the Winter, Geraldine Connolly recovers the lost world of childhood in the years of small-town America following World War II. The prevailing imagery is that of fire, the fire of bombing recollected, the fire of Roman Catholicism, of rifles and steel mills, candles and cigarettes, fires both intellectual and physical, fires of emotion and spirit. Connolly's collection fixes the past and its losses in place then moves from girlhood...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155753005X
• ISBN13: 9781557530059
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Length: 47 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.1"