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An exact replica of a figment of my imagination, a memoir, Elizabeth McCracken

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An exact replica of a figment of my imagination, a memoir, Elizabeth McCracken

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

An exact replica of a figment of my imagination

Oclc number

191882070

Responsibility statement

Elizabeth McCracken

Sub title

a memoir

Summary

A prize-winning, successful novelist in her 30s, McCracken was happy to be an itinerant writer and self-proclaimed spinster. But suddenly she fell in love, got married, and was living in a remote part of France , working on her novel, and waiting for the birth of her first child. This book is about what happened nextIn her ninth month of pregnancy, she learned that her baby boy had died. With humor and warmth and unfailing generosity, McCrackenconsiders the nature of love and grief. She tells how her next pregnancy is colored by her loss andthe joyfulness of the healthy birth of her second child

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