Bøger af Susan Snyder

What does a 68-year-old widowed homemaker from Philadelphia have in common with a 67-year-old single retired teacher from Hershey? Not a lot, it seemed, when forced to interact at 8 AM on a flight to Albuquerque. Was fate linking Lizzie and Alice together, forming a long-lasting friendship? Nothing could have prepared these two women for their sightseeing adventures, a shocking murder, profound grief, and the outpouring of love that comes when facing what lies within each of us. Together, they build confidence, tell their story, and identify opportunities to open doors that many people their age think are closing.

"Unless otherwise noted, all material is from the collection of The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley"--T.p. verso.

This text draws a basic distinction between two aspects of the pastoral ideal: the Arcadian pastoral, which locates the unspoiled paradise in space, and the Golden Age mode, which locates the ideal pastoral life in time gone by, always already lost as soon as it is apprehended as paradise.