Knitting Yarns - by Ann Hood (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In this lovely anthology, Sue Grafton, Barbara Kingsolver, and other authors go public with their passion for knitting. --<em>People</em> (four stars)<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>The impressive collection of writers here have contributed essays that celebrate knitting and knitters. They share their knitting triumphs and disasters as well as their life triumphs and disasters...These essays will break your heart. They will have you laughing out loud. --Ann Hood, from the introduction</p><p>Why does knitting occupy a place in the hearts of so many writers? What's so magical and transformative about yarn and needles? How does knitting help us get through life-changing events and inspire joy? In <em>Knitting Yarns</em>, twenty-seven writers tell stories about how knitting healed, challenged, or helped them to grow. Barbara Kingsolver describes sheering a sheep for yarn. Elizabeth Berg writes about her frustration at failing to knit. Ann Patchett traces her life through her knitting, writing about the scarf that knits together the women she's loved and lost. Knitting a Christmas gift for his blind aunt helped Andre Dubus III knit an understanding with his girlfriend. Kaylie Jones finds the woman who used knitting to help raise her in France and heals old wounds. Sue Grafton writes about her passion for knitting. Also included are five original knitting patterns created by Helen Bingham.</p><p>Poignant, funny, and moving, <em>Knitting Yarns</em> is sure to delight knitting enthusiasts and lovers of literature alike.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>[In <em>Knitting Yarns</em>] knitting and literature pair up in a spectacular way.-- "Vogue Knitting"<br><br>A seamless collection of essays that explores the agony and ecstasy of 'knitting yarns' on the needles as well as on the page...<em>Knitting Yarns</em> is a little community of its own where its writers speak the language of knitters.-- "Minneapolis Star Tribune"<br><br>Ingenious...Could it be that writers who knit are the cleverest people in the world?-- "Philadelphia Inquirer"<br><br>Otherwise normal-seeming writers come out as knitters in the infinitely crafty anthology <em>Knitting Yarns</em>. How hot is that?--Elissa Schappell "Vanity Fair"<br><br>Poignant, funny, and moving, <em>Knitting Yarns</em> is sure to delight knitting enthusiasts and lovers of literature alike.-- "Book Reporter"<br><br>While tracing the magic of knitting, these funny, honest, and moving essays turn out to be quite magical themselves.-- "Publishers Weekly"<br>
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