✨ Featured Offer
Used, Like New
$23.39
List Price: $21.00
🚚
See all 5 offers from $10.00 FREE standard delivery by: 30 Mar 2026
Overview
"Misgivings is C. K. Williams's searing recollection of his family's extreme dynamics and of his parents' deaths after years of struggle, bitterness, inner conflict, and, finally, love." "Williams's father was an "ordinary businessman" - angry, demanding, addicted to the tension he created with the people he loved; a man who could recite the Greek myths to his son yet vowed never to apologize to anybody. Williams's mother was a housewife, a woman with a great capacity for pleasure, who was stoical about the family's dire early poverty yet remained affected by it even when they became well-off. Together, these two formed what Williams calls the "conspiracy that made me who I am." His account of their life together and of their deaths - his father's in a final abandonment of the will to live, his mother's with calm resignation - is a literary form of the reconciliation the family achieved at the end of his parents' lives, composed as a series of short takes, a double helix of experience and recollection."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
| ISBN-13 | 9780374199845 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 0374199841 |
| Weight | 1.00 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 6.00 x 1.00 x 8.50 In |
| List Price | $21.00 |
| Format | Hardcover |
|---|---|
| Pages | 170 pages |
| Publisher | Farrar Straus & Giroux |
| Published On | 2000-04-01 |
View All Offers
Sort by:
Price
Condition
Seller
Seller Comments
Price
Used, Very Good
Seller details
HPB-Ruby
Dallas, TX, USA
Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and ...
Free delivery by: 30 Mar 2026
Used, Very Good
Seller details
Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB
Frederick, MD, USA
Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also conta...
Free delivery by: 30 Mar 2026
✨ Used, Like New
Seller details
MyLibraryMarket
Waynesville, OH, USA
Size: 8x5x0; Mylar cover over the dust jacket-my shelf location 41-f-19.
Free delivery by: 30 Mar 2026
Used, Very Good
Seller details
ZENO'S
San Francisco, CA, USA
New York. 2000. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0374199841. 1...
Free delivery by: 30 Mar 2026
Used, Very Good
Seller details
Between the Covers-Rare Books
Gloucester City, NJ, USA
First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper.
Free delivery by: 30 Mar 2026