This Last House: A Retirement Memoir

by Janis Stout and Janis P. Stout

Book Overview

Memoirs are tricky, especially when the author isn't widely known. But Janis Stout tackles the memoir with a new and inventive approach--she organizes her memories around the houses she's lived in. "Sometimes," she wrote, "I picture my life as a long row of houses." Houses, she claims, are metaphors for the structures of our lives, and Stout's houses twine their way through this memoir along with reflections on work and retirement, marriages good...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875654088
• ISBN13: 9780875654089
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Texas Christian University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"