The Florist’s Daughter Patricia Hampl Harcourt, $24, 240 pp. Swimming in a Sea of DeathA Son’s MemoirDavid RieffSimon & Schuster, $21, 192 pp. Two deaths, two mothers, two books: two noted authors write of their mothers’ deaths. The contrast between the authors, as between the mothers, could hardly be sharper. Patricia Hampl—poet, memoirist, and the florist (...)
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A Tale of Two Mothers
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