01829cam a2200301 i 4500 1226184137 TxAuBib 20240408120000.0 210930s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780063118034 paperback $28.99 0063118033 paperback $28.99 (OCoLC)1275439953 TxAuBib rda Patchett, Ann, author. These precious days : essays / Ann Patchett. First Harper large print edition. New York : Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2021] ©2021. vi, 424 pages (large print) : portrait ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Introduction: essays don't die -- Three fathers -- First Thanksgiving -- The Paris tattoo -- My year of no shopping -- The worthless servant -- How to practice -- To the doghouse -- Eudora Welty, an introduction -- Flight plan -- How knitting saved my life. Twice. -- Tavia -- There are no children here -- A paper ticket is good for one year -- The moment nothing changed -- The nightstand -- A talk to the Association of Graduate School Deans in the Humanities -- Cover stories -- Reading Kate DiCamillo -- Sisters -- These precious days -- Two more things I want to say about my father -- What the American Academy of Arts and Letters taught me about death -- Epilogue: a day at the beach. In this collection of essays, Patchett turns her writer's eye on her own experiences and transforms the private into the universal, providing us all a way to look at our own worlds anew. 20240408. Large type books. Autobiographies.