Research Catalog
Fads and fancies
- Title
- Fads and fancies / Denys Sutton ; with an introduction by Kenneth Clark.
- Author
- Sutton, Denys.
- Publication
- New York : Wittenborn, 1979.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | NX65 .S97 1979 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 240 pages : illustrations (some color); 32 cm
- Summary
- "Award-winning journalist Michele Weldon provides a potent antidote to the harried single mom stereotype in this beguiling memoir of raising three sons alone in the face of cancer, an ambitious career, and the shadow of her ex. Untethered from a seemingly idyllic life with a handsome but abusive attorney husband, Weldon relates the challenges and triumphs of the years that followed her divorce as she maneuvers through a complicated life of long daily commutes, radiation treatments, supporting the boys' all-consuming high school wrestling careers, and trying to mitigate their hurt and resentment at an absent father. By turns humorous and heartbreaking, Weldon describes facing her fears and failures honestly, guided by a belief in the power of staying calm, doing one's best, and asking for help. She provides a graceful example of how a single mother, and her children, can succeed when others--neighbors, family, teachers, and in this case an incredible high school wrestling coach--step in to fill the void and she can stay the course with common sense and dutiful love"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Le bon ton and Le roast beef : does an English rococo exist? -- 'The faire majestic paradise of Stowe' : the historical and artistic background of a famous house -- The final flowering of the Medici : a little-known aspect of Italian patronage -- 'Magick land' : artists and travellers in eighteenth-century Rome -- Realms of enjoyment : the culture of eighteenty-century Bath -- The Black Swan of Bom Jesus : English travellers in eighteenth-century Portugal -- A silver age in Dutch art : the discovery of eighteenth-century Dutch art -- The paradoxes of neo-classicism : a reappraisal of a major artistic movement -- Il cavaliere Alberto : the life and times of Thorvaldsen, the Danish sculptor -- The incomparable Josephine : the Empress Josephine and her taste -- The prisoner : an assessment of Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- Celtic and classical dreams : Burne-Jones and his world -- A long affair : the Bostonians and French art -- Munich : city of the arts : the major artistic role of Munich from 1800 to 1914 -- Wanderers and aesthetes : Russian art from the symbolists to the Revolution -- 'A rose's place among our memories' : Paris in the 1890s -- The sharp eye of Edith Wharton : the American novelist and her taste -- The singularity of Gino Severini : Italy's most original painter of the twentieth century.
- ISBN
- 0815009038
- 9780815009030
- LCCN
- 79064887
- OCLC
- 6189560
- SCSB-2244610
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries