title: To the Boathouse: A Memoir
author:  Mary Ann Caws 
description: <DIV>&quot;A southern female contemporary version of <I>The Education of Henry Adams</I>. . . . The author lets us inside the narrator: we see a complex and sympathetic woman. . . . I especially admired every passage dealing with food and intellectual issues.&quot;</DIV><DIV>&mdash;Sena Jeter Naslund, author of <I>Ahab&#39;s Wife</I></DIV><br /><br /><DIV>&quot;Caws traces a continuum of relish and regret encompassing emotional states such as joy, fear, angst, and anger, but at the same time acknowledges the power of imagination in shaping her personal and professional life. [She] traces the process whereby she acquired her personal and academic voice despite an emotionally absent father, a husband who considered his career more important than hers, and a stiflingly sexist southern society.&quot;<BR /> &mdash;<I>ANQ</I></DIV>
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  PUBLISHED BY DOUBLEDAY
  
  
  a division of Random House, Inc.,
  
  
  DOUBLEDAY and the portrayal of an anchor with a dolphin are registered
  trademarks of Random House, Inc.
  
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations,
  places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s
  imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons,
  living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
  
  
  Excerpts from this work first appeared in the _Boston Globe Magazine,
  Boulevard, Five Points, Harvard Review, Hunger Mountain, The Kenyon Review,
  The Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner_ , and _Southwest Review._
  
  
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  
  
  Hoffman, Alice.
  
  
  Blackbird House / Alice Hoffman
  
  
  p. cm.
  
  
  1\. Women—Massachusetts—Fiction. 2. Home ownership—Fiction. 3.
  Massachusetts—Fiction. 4. Dwellings—Fiction. I. Title.
  
  
  PS3558.O3447B55 2004
  
  
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