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Among Friends

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Among Friends
Authors and Contributors      By (author) M. F. K. Fisher
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:312
Dimensions(mm): Height 208,Width 140
ISBN/Barcode 9781593760243
ClassificationsDewey:B
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Counterpoint
Imprint Counterpoint
Publication Date 30 March 2004
Publication Country United States

Description

In Among Friends M. F. K. Fisher begins her recollections in Albion, Michigan, but they soon lead her to Whittier, California, where her family moved in 1912, when she was four. The "Friends" of the title range from the hobos who could count on food at the family's back door to the businessmen who advertised in Father's paper-but above all they are the Quakers who were the prominent group in Whittier. Mary Frances Kennedy found them unusual friends indeed, in the more than forty years that she lived in Whittier she was never invited inside a Friend's house. Her portraits of her father, Rex-her mentor, himself the editor of the local newspaper-her mother, Edith, and the other members of her family are memorable and moving. Originally published in 1970, Among Friends provides a fascinating glimpse into the background and development of one of our most delightful and best-loved writers, Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher.

Author Biography

Robert Grudin is a writer and philosopher, and the author of the metafictional novel Book, as well as Mighty Opposites: Shakespeare and Renaissance Contrariety, The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation, On Dialogue: An Essay in Free Thought, Time and the Art of Living, The Most Amazing Thing, and American Vulgar: The Politics of Manipulation Versus the Culture of Awareness. He holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of California, Berkeley and received a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Reviews

"If I were still teaching high school English, I'd use Fisher's books to show how to write simply, how to enjoy food and drink but, most of all, how to enjoy life. Her books are one feast after another."