Susan Cheever

As Good As I Could Be (eBook, ePUB)

A Memoir About Raising Wonderful Children in an Imperfect World

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Award-winning author Susan Cheever has written about her life experience to great acclaim in books including Note Found in a Bottle, Treetops, and Home Before Dark. Here she beautifully details her life as a mother to illuminate larger truths, namely that to raise children successfully, parents must act like parents. Growing from the New York Newsday columns she has written since 1993, As Good As I Could Be is Cheever's honest account of raising her daughter and son. Together, and with amazing grace, the three have survived two divorces, single parenthood, financial problems, alcoholism, teenage angst, and more. Good parenting begins when parents dare to use their authority -- financial, emotional, and experiential -- to teach their children to lead useful, loving lives. No matter how damaged or unhappy an adult's childhood was, it should not affect the way they parent their children. Like Anne Lamott's Operating Instructions, As Good As I Could Be is sure to become a classic. Cheever is not only an elegant stylist, but a fearless, opinionated, and disarmingly honest writer, willing to face the contradictory aspects of being a parent head on. As Good As I Could Be is a touchstone for all parents doing the best they can.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780743215404
• Artikelnr.: 37834949

Autorenporträt

Susan Cheever is the bestselling author of thirteen previous books, including five novels and the memoirs Note Found in a Bottle and Home Before Dark. Her work has been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Boston Globe Winship Medal. She is a Guggenheim Fellow, a member of the Corporation of Yaddo, and a member of the Author's Guild Council. She teaches in the Bennington College M.F.A. program. She lives in New York City with her family.