In this Book
- This Last House: A Retirement Memoir
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: TCU Press
summary
Janis Stout tackles the memoir with a new and inventive approach—she organizes her memories around the houses she’s lived in. ““I picture my life as a long row of houses.” Houses are metaphors for the structures of our lives, and Stout’s houses twine their way along with reflections on work and retirement, marriage, and quietness for engaging in the important last work of life.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- p. ix
- Introduction: Finding Prickly Ridge
- pp. xi-xvi
- Part One: Remembrance of Houses Past
- Chapter Two: All Those Way Stations
- pp. 21-44
- Part Two: Moving into Retirement
- Chapter Four: Deciding to Retire
- pp. 65-88
- Chapter Five: Planning Our House
- pp. 89-104
- Chapter Six: Leaving
- pp. 105-114
- Part Three: On Cerro Espinoso
- Chapter Seven: Building It
- pp. 117-142
- Chapter Eight: Being There
- pp. 143-180
- Chapter Nine: People Are More Important
- pp. 181-194
- Part Four: Back in Texas
- Chapter Ten: Building It Again
- pp. 197-214
- Chapter Twelve: A Place to End
- pp. 233-240
Additional Information
ISBN
9780875654447
Related ISBN(s)
9780875654089
MARC Record
OCLC
794700287
Pages
264
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No