Hourglass - Time, Memory, Marriage by Dani Shapiro Memoir Hardcover Book

Hourglass 

Time, Memory, Marriage

by Dani Shapiro

First Edition

"Compassionate, insightful, and powerfully honest, Dani Shapiro's Hourglass illuminates the deepest mysteries, contradictions, and consolations of so very much love, memory, the people we used to be and the people we've become. In other words: life. I was absorbed by Hourglass and consoled by it, too. It's  a beautiful book by a writer of rare talent."  -Cheryl Strayed

"Gorgeous, stunning. extraordinary - life changing." - Will Schwalbe

"Rilke reminds us that 'there are multitudes of people, but there are many more faces. Because each person has several of them.' And how do we, moment after elusive moment, marry then continue to change and grow yet still accomodate these multitudes in onr another? This is just one of the piercingly compelling questions Dani Shapiro explores in her masterfully rendered new memoir. Written with erudition, hard-earned wisdom, and sensual grace. Hourglass is a fearless and lovely mosaic of those fragments that make life worth living. The only one we get. I adore this book." - Andre Dubus III

"Dani Shapiro's prose is elegant and crystal clear, the perfect vehicle for  her fierce intelligence and curiosity about things that lurk just out of view.  Hourglass is such a lovely book." - Richard Russo

"Reading this book was like skating across a perfect piece of ice and then slowly noticing the cracks. Dark, cold water shows through. We can't see the depths. Be careful, Shapiro warns, be careful, but still she skates on in the fading light with remarkable beauty and grace."  -Jenny Offill

"In this touching and íntimate memoir ... Shapiro beautifully weaves together her own moving language and a commonplace book's worth of perfect quotes from others.  - Publishers Weekly WEEXLY (Starred Review)

"To write openly about an enduring intimate relationship requires courage and tact... In this compelling account of her eighteen-year marriage,  Shapiro carefully exposes the vulnerabilities that have subtly begun to surface... finely tuned, poetic... sharply observed and frequently moving." - Kirkus Reviews  (Starred Review)

Pages in unmarked condition. Minor shelf wear to edges of dust jacket. Hardcover is in excellent condition.