An Enlarged Heart: A Personal History

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Intimate reflections on life's enduring bonds.

"An Enlarged Heart" is an eloquent journey through Cynthia Zarin's life, offering you a tapestry of anecdotal threads that weave together the complexities of relationships and memory. If you enjoy memoirs that observe the poetic subtleties in everyday encounters and the profound connections with people and places, you might find this book to be a heartfelt and provocative companion.

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An Enlarged Heart: A Personal History

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ISBN: 9781400042715
Authors: Cynthia Zarin
Publisher: Knopf
Date of Publication: 2013-02-12
Format: Hardcover
Related Topics: Essays, Memoir, Biography Memoir
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An Enlarged Heart, the exquisitely written prose debut from prize-winning poet Cynthia Zarin, is a poignantly understated exploration of the author’s experiences with love, work, and the surprise of time’s passage. In these intertwined episodes from her New York world and beyond, she charts the shifting and complicated parameters of contemporary life and family in writing that feels nearly fictional in its richness of scene, dialogue, and mood. The writer herself is the marvelously rueful character at the center of these tales, at first a bewildered young woman, navigating the terrain of new jobs and borrowed apartments and the rapidly fading New York of people like Mr. Ferri, the Upper East Side tailor (“a wren of a man with pins flashing in his teeth”). By the end, whether Zarin is writing about vanished restaurants, her decades-long love affair with her collection of coats, a newlywed journey to Italy, a child’s illness, Mary McCarthy’s file cabinet, or the inner life of the New Yorker staff she knew as a young woman, this history of the heart shows us how persistent the past is in returning to us with entirely new lessons, and that there are some truths not even a tailor can alter.
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Intimate reflections on life's enduring bonds.

"An Enlarged Heart" is an eloquent journey through Cynthia Zarin's life, offering you a tapestry of anecdotal threads that weave together the complexities of relationships and memory. If you enjoy memoirs that observe the poetic subtleties in everyday encounters and the profound connections with people and places, you might find this book to be a heartfelt and provocative companion.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.