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Published in USA
Oct 2013
96 pages
Genre: Advice
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Survival Lessons provides a road map of how to reclaim your life from this day forward, with ways to reenvision everything - from relationships with friends and family to the way you see yourself. As Alice Hoffman says, "In many ways I wrote Survival Lessons to remind myself of the beauty of life, something that's all too easy to overlook during the crisis of illness or loss. I forgot that our lives are made up of equal parts of sorrow and joy, and that it is impossible to have one without the other. I wrote to remind myself that despite everything that was happening to me, there were still choices I could make."
Wise, gentle, and wry, Alice Hoffman teaches all of us how to choose what matters most.
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"A lightweight but heartening book." - Kirkus
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Alice Hoffman was born in New York City on March 16, 1952 and grew up on Long
Island. After graduating from high school in 1969, she attended Adelphi
University, from which she received a BA, and then received a Mirrellees
Fellowship to the Stanford University Creative Writing Center, which she
attended in 1973 and 74, receiving an MA in creative writing. She currently
lives in Boston and New York.
Hoffman's first novel, Property Of, was written at the age of
twenty-one, while she was studying at Stanford, and published shortly thereafter
by Farrar Straus and Giroux. She credits her mentor, professor and writer Albert
J. Guerard, and his wife, the writer Maclin Bocock Guerard, for helping her to
publish her first short story in the magazine Fiction. Editor...
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