Let's Take the Long Way Home

A Memoir of Friendship

Author: Gail Caldwell
ISBN: 9781400067381

"It's an old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too."   So begins this gorgeous memoir by Pulitzer Prize winner Gail Caldwell, a testament to the power of friendship, a story of how an extraordinary bond between two women can illuminate the loneliest, funniest, hardest moments in life, including the final and ultimate challenge. They met over their dogs. Both writers, Gail Caldwell and Caroline Knapp, author of Drinking: A Love Story, became best friends, talking about everything from their shared history of a struggle with alcohol, to their relationships with men and colleagues, to their love of books. They walked the woods of New England and rowed on the Charles River, and the miles they logged on land and water became a measure of the interior ground they covered. From disparate backgrounds but with striking emotional similarities, these two private, fiercely self-reliant women created an attachment more profound than eit

Publisher: Random House
Publish Date: 2010

Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Women, Biography & Autobiography / Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs

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